A pair of flower watercolours was executed ca. in 1840s by listed French still life and landscape painter Joseph Charles Node (Node-Veran). The artist was born, worked and died in Montpellier (1811 - 1886). He was the father of other still life painters Charles node-Saint-Ange and Victor Node. His flower watercolours were influenced by Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759 – 1840), nicknamed "Raphael of flowers".

Works by the artist are in the Museum Fabre, Montpellier.

Literature: Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from antique to contemporary" (in German), Leipzig, 1999; Bellier-Auvray, Dict. Gen. Etc., 2 (1885); Benezit "Dict. d.peintres etc.", 3 (1924), cataloque of the Museum Fabre, Montpeller, 1910.

Inscription: each signed " NodeVeran del.".

Technique: both watercolours on paper, original period gold-plated frames.

Measurements: each visiable image w 12 1/4" x h 15 3/4 " (31 x 40 cm), framed w 18 1/8" x h 21 2/3 " (46 x 55 cm).

Condition: both in good condition.