A Female Figure representing Flora in the Garden, (painting)

Object Details

Notes: Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 39 (Sale info: For Sale).; "As usual with this artist very highly finished. The figure and drapery with different flowers of the foreground very exquisitely wrought up. The sculptured Grecian vase, and buildings, &c., in the distance gives it a truly classical air. Painted by Teodore Nescher, claimed by the Dutch as one of their artists, though he was born at Bourdon 1661, died 1732." [P. 6.]; Descriptive Catalogue of Original Cabinet Paintings, now arranged in the Gallery, Doggett's Repository of Arts, entrance at No. 16, Market-Street, and may be viewed every day, from 8 in the morning till sunset; being a truly splendid and valuable Collection of one hundred and sixty-four Cabinet Paintings in elegant frames; selected on the Continent of Europe, at the Expense of thirty thousand dollars, and are warranted to comprise the works of the Great Masters, from the 13th Century to the Present Time.

Topic: Landscape--Garden; Mythology--Classical--Flora; Object--Flower; Object--Other--Vase; Landscape--Building; Figure female