Bouquet of flowers in a Greek vase, a conch and a seashell on the table with relief with putti. Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 46×35 cm.

Bouquet of flowers in a Greek vase, a conch and a seashell on the table with relief with putti. Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 46×35 cm. Literature: Ch.A. Been, “Danmarks malerkunst I”, 1902, ill. p. 189. Marie Louise Berner and Mette Thelle, “Blomstermaler J. L. Jensen”, 2018, the painting is referred to on pp. 26–28. The present painting and van Os' painting are illustrated p. 27. During I.L. Jensen's stay in Paris in 1822–1823, he used part of the time to copy flower painters at the Louvre by e.g. Jan van Huysum (1682–1749), Gérard van Pandonck (1746–1822) and Jan Frans van Dael (1764–1840) and also the painting by Georgius Jacobus van Os (1782–1861). Jensen mentions why he copies the other flower painters' arrangements (in Danish): “... I think I have used the winter in the best way by copying these paintings, as I have thereby learned a lot in terms of the way to draw and the effect.” (“Blomstermaler J. L. Jensen”, 2018, p. 26). The present painting is referred to by the authors as by Jensen, copy after Georgius Jacobus van Os, and must have been executed in 1823, while they were both working at Sèvres. The painting by van Os is titled “Arrangement with flowers in a Greek vase, allegory of spring”, dated 1817. That one at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (Inv. No. SK-A-1105). The vase in the painting is an accurate reproduction of an antique vase in the Louvre.