Fine floral composition with primroses, currant and cherries  inwas executed in 1861 by good listed French painter Alexandre (Jean-Alex-Remy) Couder ( 1808 Paris - 1879 Baran/Oise). Pupil of Gros at the paris ecole-Beaux-Arts , worked in >Paris, where regulary exhibited his genre scenes, fruit and flower composition by Salon de Paris.  His woks situate in the following museums: Angers, Reims, Boulogne, Lilles, Langres, Dieppe, La Rochelle, Orleans, Rouen.

Literature: E. Benezit " Dictionary of painters, sculptors, decorators and etchers"(in French), Paris, 1999. "General Artist´s Lexicon " by Thieme/Becker, Leipzig, 1999; Bellier-Auvray, Dict.gen.

Inscription: signed and dated 1861 lower left.

Technique: oil on canvas. Magnificent original period gold-plated frame .

Measurements: unframed w 15" x h 18 1/8" (38 x 46 cm), framed w 23 1/4 " x h 26 1/3" (59 x 67 cm)

Condition: in good condition, canvas professionally  relined.