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Flowerpiece
1837
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
95.4 × 73.9 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1956
Gallery location
17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
There are no fewer than thirty-nine varieties of fruits and flowers represented in this spectacular painting, and the care Leopold Stoll has taken in their rendering is such that all species are identifiable. Since the fifteenth century, Dutch artists in particular had taken a scientific approach to still life, with accuracy of detail being vitally important. Stoll continued this tradition. Three years before creating Flowerpiece, he had been the official painter at the botanic gardens in St Petersburg, Russia.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in black paint l.c.: L. v Stoll 1837
Accession Number
3282-4
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Still Lifes
Subjects (specific)
bird (animal) flower pieces flowers (plant components) fruit (plant components) pomegranate (fruit) pumpkins rose (genus)
Provenance
Collection of F. Schwitzer, Vienna, before 1949; collection of George Papp (b. 1903, Hungary), by 1949 and by whom brought to Australia in that year; his collection, Melbourne, until 1956; from whom acquired, by Dr Eric Westbrook, for the NGV, in 1956.