Still Life with Flowers in a Greek Vase: Allegory on Spring ^Sale

Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os (1817)

Still Life with Flowers in a Greek Vase: Allegory of Spring. On a marble plinth is a Greek vase with a bouquet of flowers (lilies, hydrangeas, rhododendrons, dahlias, roses and violets) and some shells. Under the plinth is a bronze frieze with a relief with putti that re-enact a kind of toilet of Venus. Van Os spent his career mainly in Paris, where he painted porcelain for the famous Sèvres factory. At the same time, he created a furore with magnificently painted floral still lifes incorporating antique art objects. These two paintings probably belong to a series of the Four Seasons. In this painting of Spring, the flowers are arranged in a Greek vase.