Flowers Hartinger, Anton Still life with alpine flowers. 1886. oil on canvas. 31 x 39 cm. Signed "Anton Hartinger fec." and dated. Hardly legible export stamp verso. Framed in a gold-coloured stucco frame with acanthus leaf and pearl band decoration. - With superficial colour abrasion in places along the edges. Isolated very fine craquelure. Firniss yellowed and darkened. No retouching recognisable under UV light. Good overall. Floral still life in the classical manner of the Viennese Biedermeier. A view of various alpine flowers unfolds before our eyes in exceptionally fine painterly quality, skilfully draped by Anton Hartinger in front of an alpine mountain backdrop. The Viennese painter had been fascinated by the splendour of nature's flowers and blossoms since his training and specialised in botanical illustrations and flower painting. His work was so genuine that it had the character of botanical documentation and Hartinger was appointed corrector at the Vienna Academy's School of Flower and Fruit Painting in 1836. The artist also received generous support from Archduke Anton, who was also a lover of flowers. Modelled on the classical flower still lifes of 17th century Dutch painting, Hartinger knew how to win over the public of the Biedermeier period by capturing the beauty of the blossoms in great detail and the wide variety and diversity of the flowers. In our painting, Hartinger depicted a bouquet of glacier buttercup, diptam, rhaetian poppy, gentian, common heather, arnica, yellow lady's slipper and other wildflowers. The painting is from the artist's late work. Oil on board. Signed "Anton Hartinger fec." and dated. On the verso with hardly readable export stamp. Framed in a gold-coloured stucco frame with acanthus leaf and pearl band decoration. - With isolated superficial colour abrasion along the edges. Isolated very fine craquelure. Varnish yellowed and darkened. No retouches visible under UV light. Good overall. Floral still life in the classical manner of the Viennese Biedermeier. - With a very fine painterly quality, various Alpine flowers unfold before our eyes, skilfully draped by Anton Hartinger against an Alpine mountain backdrop. The Viennese painter had been fascinated by the splendour of flowers and blossoms since his training and specialised in botanical illustrations and flower painting. His work was so genuine that it had the character of botanical documentation and Hartinger was appointed corrector at the Vienna Academy's School of Flower and Fruit Painting in 1836. The artist also received generous support from Archduke Anton who was also a lover of flowers. Oriented on the classical flower still lifes of 17th century Dutch painting, Hartinger knew how to win over the public of the Biedermeier period by capturing the beauty of the blossoms in great detail and the wide variety and diversity of the flowers. Our painting is from the artist's late work. 1200