Gabriel DUDAN - Bouquet de fleurs

Gabriel-Dominique DUDAN (Active 1830s-1850s) Oil on canvas 61 x 50 cm (77 x 66 cm with frame) Signed and dated lower right  "G. Dudan / 1854" Beautiful carved and gilded wooden frame from the 19th century Gabriel Dudan is a French painter of still lifes, flowers and fruits from the Romantic period. He exhibited at the Paris Salon in the 1830s to 1850s for example "Flowers" in 1837, 1840, 1841 and "Flowers and Fruits" in 1852. Our painting is a rich floral composition with roses, foxgloves, poppies, small violets and daisies. The finesse of the flower design is reminiscent of the great French flower painters of the first half of the 19th century. The colors are very harmonious around red and white in the center, from the orange of the digitalis at the top of the composition to the pink at the bottom, passing through the purple in the center. Small details are remarkably well rendered, including the yellow butterfly in the lower left and the drops of water in the lower center.