Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000
Auction: January 29, 2015 10:00:00 AM EDT
Signed and dated 'Eliaerts 1814' bottom right, oil on canvas
38 9/16 x 28 1/2 in. (97.9 x 72.4cm)
Provenance: Private Collection, Pennsylvania.
NOTE:
Working in the tradition of an earlier generation of Dutch and Flemish artists who specialized in painting highly ornate still lifes of exotic mixed flowers--such as Jan van Huysum and Jan Philip van Thielen--Eliaerts was one of the premier next generation painters of this highly decorative and refined genre. Working in Paris, he was Professor of the Institute of the Legion d' Honneur at Saint-Denis and exhibited regularly at the Paris Salons and also created cartoons for the famed Gobelin factory.