Still Life of Flowers

Eugène Delacroix

Oil on canvas

Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

This lush and vibrant floral still life bursts with an exuberant variety of blooms rendered with the bold, expressive brushwork that defines French Romanticism at its peak. Eugène Delacroix, widely considered the leader of the Romantic movement in French painting, brought to flower painting the same passionate palette and dynamic energy that animated his monumental history canvases — breaking from convention by avoiding the typical vases and draperies that clichéd the genre. The work was painted for his close friend and celebrated novelist George Sand, and is now housed in the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna. Displaying this painting brings into your home a rare and intimate masterpiece — one that Delacroix considered among his most uninhibited works, and that bridges the Romantic era and the dawn of Impressionism.