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Flowers with Daisies

c. 1840
Watercolor with graphite underdrawing on parchment
27.3 × 21.6 cm (10.7 × 8.5 in)

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Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia · verified July 2026

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An anonymous artist has gathered white daisies, purple primrose, a pale pink rose, and blue love-in-a-mist into a small bouquet. Note the cool silvery tones (especially in the rose petals) and the lacy bracts around the love-in-a-mist blossoms. At the Barnes, Flowers with Daisies is displayed by another botanical watercolor, Field Flowers (1842) by Mélanie Marc. The pair draws attention to the flowers in a prominent painting below them, Matisse's Figure with Bouquet (1939).

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