Original gouache painting on panel, 11.75 x 10 inches. Printed calendar for 1950 mounted beneath the image. 7.75 x 7 inches. A buff-toned panel painted white on both sides with an inset frame, giving the impression of being a matted painting. Small ribbon hanging loop affixed to the top for display. A subdued but evocative still life after French painter Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), renowned for his floral still lifes. Known as the "Betrothal Still Life," the original painting was completed in 1869 and has characteristically deep tones, which our painter feels are lacking from this copy. A note on the back reads: "This is a copy I have made from a Fantin-Latour that I saw that time in France - I brought back a small photograph and a vivid memory so that the whole is not unlike - but it is too light in tone - a thing I cannot easily avoid in this medium." But, we're actually partial to the tonal nuances in the generously laid gouache with pastel-skewing tones (although fugitive pigments may also take some credit for this). Also inscribed on the back, "With love and every good wish for Christmas 1949" and a pencil note "1806-1934" in the lower left corner we suspect might be a case of accidentally transposing the artist's dates, 1836-1904.