Flowers in a Vase
Félix Ziem (Beaune 1821 - Paris 1911)
Lot-No. 45
Oil/wood, 34 x 23,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. Ziem, min. rest. - French marine, landscape a. still life painter. Z. studied architecture but made painting his profession. Since 1849 he exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon. In 1857 he was made chevalier de la légion d'honneur, in 1901 he was appointed official painter to the French marine. His oeuvre is dominated by subjects from his numerous travels round the Mediterranean Sea. - Mus.: Paris (Louvre a. others), New York (Metrop. Mus.), Dijon, Florence, Amsterdam, Frankfurt (Städel), Hamburg a. others. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.
Félix Ziem: Flowers in a Vase
Félix Ziem (Beaune 1821 - Paris 1911)
Flowers in a Vase
Lot-No. 45
Oil/wood, 34 x 23,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. Ziem, min. rest. - French marine, landscape a. still life painter. Z. studied architecture but made painting his profession. Since 1849 he exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon. In 1857 he was made chevalier de la légion d'honneur, in 1901 he was appointed official painter to the French marine. His oeuvre is dominated by subjects from his numerous travels round the Mediterranean Sea. - Mus.: Paris (Louvre a. others), New York (Metrop. Mus.), Dijon, Florence, Amsterdam, Frankfurt (Städel), Hamburg a. others. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.