Masterfully Biedermeier still life with flowers, ladybug and butterfly was executed in 1840-50 by listed French painter, the represantative of famous Lyon flower school Joseph Augustin, dit Auguste Malpertuy (Villefranche, 1823 - Lyon, 1897).

LITERATURE: Audin/Vial II, 1919; AKL-World Biographical Dictionary of Artists; Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon, liste des artistes.

INSCRIPTION: signed lower right.

TECHNIQUE: oil on canvas. Original luxuriousy gold-plated " Ox eye" frame.

MEASUREMENTS: unframed w 13 1/8" x h 16 1/3" (33,5 x 41,5 cm); framed w 17 7/8" x h 21 1/2" (45,5 x 54,5 cm).

CONDITION: very good, original canvas.