Charles Gaudelet, Still Life With A Bouquet, Goldfinch & Spider

Charles Gaudelet, Still Life With A Bouquet, Goldfinch & SpiderThis beautiful mid 19th century watercolour by French artist Charles Gaudelet (1826 1878) depicts a bouquet of flowers emerging from a Chinese vase, together with a goldfinch. Gaudelet was a notable master glass maker and occasional watercolourist. Produced in 1843, during the early part of Gaudelets career, a high degree of fine draughtsmanship is coupled with a burst of decorative colours. The vase itself is rendered with careful observation and

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His buyers were generally the rising middle classes in the North who sought to adorn their walls with thoroughly British decorative works

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Surrounded by the various decorative embellishments of a plush Italian interior

His various homes were a veritable feast for the eyes and stacked high with antiques - oil lamps

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Rural interiors

The painting is signed in the upper left and housed within a period frame

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while the windswept trees beyond merge into a haze

This enchanting late 19th-century oil painting by Scottish artist John Pettie RA HRSA (1839-1893) depicts a young lady styled in Spanish attire and carrying a domino mask

his efforts paid off when he debuted at the foremost show in Denmark