Le Bouquet
Lot Closed
July 13, 02:58 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Simon Saint-Jean
French
1808 - 1860
Le Bouquet
signed and dated Saint-Jean 1849 lower left
oil on canvas
Unframed: 82.5 by 62cm., 32½ by 24½in.
Framed: 101 by 80.5cm., 39¾ by 31¾in.
In this vibrant bouquet, Simon Saint-Jean includes flowers of various seasons, spring tulips and wallflowers alongside summer roses, hollyhocks, a geum and a poppy, as well as the autumnal dahlia and aster. The beautiful display ꦅalsไo features what we would now call wild flowers, such as the meadow geranium, redshanks and eyebright.