This is the pair to the item No. 6810.

This flower painting with peonies  in a porcelain vase was executed by Louis-Victor Gesta (1828 - Toulouse - 1894 ), good listed French still life painter and glassmaker, founder of the Gesta stained glass factory which, according to its founder, decorated between 7,000 and 8,500 churches. His residence, exhibition space and factory still exists, in part, the Château des Verrières in Toulouse.

Literature: artist lexicons: E. Benezit " Dictionary of painters, sculptors, decorators and etchers"(in French), Paris, 1999; Thieme/Becker, Leipzig,1999; Schurr V, 1981.

Inscription: signed and dated 1898 lower right.

Technique:  oil on canvas.  Original period frame.

Measurements: unframed w 23 3/4 " x h 29" (60,5 x 73,5cm), framed w 32 1/4" x h 37 1/4" (82 x 94,5 cm)

Condition: in  very good condition.