Property from a Noble European collection
Pancrace Bessa
Still Life of Flowers in a Glass Vase, with Grapes, Peaches and Tomatoes
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Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Property from a Noble European collection
Pancrace Bessa
(Paris 1772 - 1846 Ecouen)
Still Life of Flowers in a Glass Vase, with Grapes, Peaches and Tomatoes
Watercolour and gouache over traces of pencil, heightened with gum arabic, on vellum laid down on board;
signed and dated in white gouache, lower left: P. Bessa. paris. 1816
448 by 340 mm
The Hon. Louisa Baring, possibly Louisa Caroline Baring, Baroness Ashburton (1827-1903), West Hill, Titchfield,
by inheritance to her niece in 1887,
by family descent to Alice Fielding, Grosvenor Gardens, London (all according to label on the back of the frame - see image online),
thence by family descent to the present owners
A pupil of Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822) and Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840), Pancrace Bessa was one of the leading painters of flowers and fruit in the first half of the nineteenth century in France.
Bessa enjoyed a rich and strong patronage throughout his career. In 1816, the year this work was painted, he was appointed flower painter, and later drawing master, to the newly married Duchesse de Berry (1798-1870). Also in the same year, upon commission from Charles X, King of France, Bessa began working on a series of 572 illustrations for Jean-Claude-Michel Mordant de Launay’s Herbier général de l’amateur.
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