Lot 1711 Dα

Emilie Preyer began drawing and painting in watercolours as a child. Since she was a woman, she was not allowed to attend the academy and so she received her first artistic training from her father Wilhelm Preyer, whose style she adopted and developed further. Thus, she too preferred the still life genre with fruits and insects, but her colour palette is more rich in contrast, not least because she usually uses a white cloth as a background for her arrangements.
The present work is not listed in the monograph by S. Weiß / H. Paffrath (op. cit.), but several very similar paintings can be found there. The piece combines all the characteristic elements of this painter's works.