A Maiden With A Basket Of Roses
A Maiden With A Basket Of Roses c1900 by Italian Painter Eugen von Blaas (1843 – 1931); Also known as Eugene de Blaas) of the Academic Classicism Period. Though he often painted Venetian scenes; he also painted many portraits and religious works of art.
This is a portrait of an attractive Italian young lady that is looking back at the viewer while carrying in her left hand a basket of mixed flowers comprising white, pink and red roses; as she walks towards the forest entrance of a stone and brick wall, with the back of her right hand positioned on her hip.
The young lady has jet black hair and is wearing gold loop earrings with a matching colored girdle that is tied at the back; on top of a white dress that goes down to her shins.
On top of the dress she is also wearing a long blue skirt with gold floral accents, red stockings and brown open heel and toes shoes.
To the right of the wall we can see the forest with it’s trees, grass and flowers; as well as flowers growing from cracks in the wall on the ground.
This is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a canvas print online.
Info Below Derived From Wikipedia.org
He was born at Albano, near Rome, to a Tyrolean father and Italian mother. His father Karl, also a painter, was his teacher. His mother, Agnesina Auda, was a well-to-do Roman woman. The family moved to Venice when Karl became Professor at the Academy of Venice. He often painted scenes in Venice, but also portraits and religious paintings.
Among his works are La forma nuziale in sacrestia; La tombola in Campielo a Venezia; Una scena di burattini in un educanciatu; and La Ninetta. The art critic Luigi Chirtani, when the painting was displayed at the Mostra Nazionale di Venezia, described it as Beautiful, flattering, pretty, caressed, cleaned, polished, laundress in a painting by Mr. Blaas, the favorite portraitist of great Venetian aristocrats, dressed in gala satins, shining jewelry, hairstyles of the rich.
His colorful and rather theatrical period images of Venetian society, e.g. On the Balcony (1877; Private Collection), were quite different compared to delicate pastels and etchings of the courtyards, balcony and canals of modern Venice.
Eugene de Blaas’ paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy, Fine Art Society, New Gallery and Arthur Tooth and Sons Gallery in London, and also at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool
