Description
Antoine Berjon was a French painter and designer, among the most important flower painters of 19th-century France.
One of Berjon's important works is his Still Life with Flowers, Shells, a Shark's Head, and Petrifications (1819). He completed the painting while still professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. The work's detailed depictions of blossoms recall the Dutch flower painters of two centuries earlier, but the items accompanying the flowers suggest no ordinary still life. The skeletal shark's head and the seashells are at first incongruous but show that Berjon has adapted his style to the era of the Enlightenment, diversifying the subject matter to represent the age's new sense of nature. The freshness and delicacy of the blooms contrast with the age and permanence of the petrifications.
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- 11" x 14" unframed
- Matted
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- 230gsm coated fine art paper that is acid-free and lignin-free
- Made in the USA
