In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Field Flowers is signed and dated "Mélanie Marc 1842." Marc presents a bouquet of pink musk mallows, blue cornflower, and sunshine-yellow poppy anemones, arranging them so that we see the flowers at multiple angles and stages of life. In some areas, the paint is nearly transparent and reveals multiple layers of flowers; the delicate precision is offset by opaque white constellations of anthers on the central musk mallows and cornflowers. Many botanical artists in the 18th and 19th centuries were women.
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