Still life with Crassula (Propelplante/Dampskibsskrue), flowering odontoglossum and other orchids. Signed and dated I.L. Jensen 1845. Oil on canvas. 66×53 cm.

Still life with Crassula (Propelplante/Dampskibsskrue), flowering odontoglossum and other orchids. Signed and dated I.L. Jensen 1845. Oil on canvas. 66×53 cm. In 1845, Jensen travelled to the Netherlands, France (Paris) and Germany with a longer stay in Altona, where he was fascinated by the tropical plants in the large greenhouses in Flottbeck. He painted some very exotic and distinctive paintings of orchids and succulents. He composed the exotic, brightly coloured orchids and succulents into “bouquets” in the same way he created bouquets of flowers. Literature: Marie-Louise Berner & Mette Thelle, “Blomstermaleren J.L. Jensen. Mellem kunst og natur” (The Flower Painter J.L. Jensen. Between Art and Nature in the Golden Age), 2018, mentioned and illustrated pp. 162–163. Provenance: Bruun Rasmussen auction 750, 2013 no. 1019, ill. p. 28.