19th "still Life With A Vase Of Flowers" Marie De Bièvre (1865-1940)

"Still Life with a Vase of Flowers", Flemish School of the 19th century signed by the Belgian painter Marie De Bièvre and dated 1889. Oil on canvas mounted on a wooden panel. Signed lower right. In its beautiful original wood and gilded pastiglia frame.

Marie de Bièvre was born in Sint-Joost-ten-Node in 1865 and attended the local art school; she later moved to Brussels, where she lived on the rue de Livourne (an address occasionally found engraved on the frames of her paintings). In 1883 she helped found the Cercle des Aquarellistes Aquafortistes et des Belges, of which Willy Finch was also a member. This group was strangled by its traditionalism and foundered rather quickly; De Bièvre founded an artists' group called the Voorwaerts (1885) and Cercle des femmes peintres (1888), which petered out sometime after its fourth exhibition in 1893. She exhibited at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago; the 1894 Expo Universelle in Antwerp; and the 1900 Paris World's Fair; also in Berlin. A pastel, Rhododendrons and Azaleas, was exhibited at the 1905 Munich Exhibition; her work was shown at the 1902 Ghent Salon; three paintings were shown at the 1907 Brussels Salon; and the Museé Royal des Beaux-Arts in Brussels owns her painting, Azaleas and Violets.
Marie De Bièvre worked in both pastels and oils, producing beautiful still lifes derived from the 17th-century Dutch and Flemish masters. He had a keen eye for contrasts and harmonies of color and his most successful works often contrast the warm tones of the background with the cool tones of the flowers.

Measurements
canvas cm 36 x 23
frame cm 54 x 31

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