- Title:
- Lilac
- Object name(s):
- Picture; German
- Brief description:
- Five or six stems of lilac in a tall glass vase are set against a two-tone neutral grey background. Flower still lifes enjoyed enormous success in the late nineteenth century, with artists like Henri Fantin-Latour becoming wealthy on their pictures of cut flowers in vases. Such images were admired for their truth to nature and sense of fleeting beauty. Scholderer’s composition, although not his choice of flowers, is similar to Fantin-Latour’s Roses, painted in England in 1864 and on loan to the National Gallery from Tate. Fantin-Latour’s flower paintings helped to make his reputation in Britain and were highly sought-after by British collectors.Scholderer was a successful German painter of portraits and still lifes, also working in London from 1871 to 1899, and this spray of lilacs shows off his considerable skill. His Portrait of the Artist's Wife is also in the National Gallery's collection.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1971-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1971
- Date - latest:
- 1971
- Acquisition source:
- Dr J.V. Scholderer
- Associated concept:
- lilac
- Credit line:
- Bequeathed by Dr J.V. Scholderer, son of the painter, 1971
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 1/121/677/494/mid_N-6401-00-000008.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 50.00
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 37.00
- Form:
- None
- Inscription content:
- Signed
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; German
- Object production date:
- about 1860-1902
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1860
- Date - latest:
- 1902
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1850-74
- Date - period:
- 1875-99
- Date - period:
- 1900-24
- Object production person:
- Otto Franz Scholderer
- Person's birth date:
- 1834
- Person's death date:
- 1902
- Object production place:
- Germany
- Other number:
- NG6401
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0EG0-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG6401
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-02ZZ-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng36401
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- flower paintings
- Style:
- Impressionist
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 623
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: January 1971 - December 1972
- Reference details:
- 31
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/534d0b48-9e14-3821-bcd2-fa83e97d15d0
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/534d0b48-9e14-3821-bcd2-fa83e97d15d0, National Gallery, CC BY
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