Who can identify these yellow flowers?

[Evert Meulie]

Hi everyone!

I've recently come in the possession of a painting that contains a vase with yellow flowers, and I'd like to know what kind of flowers they are.

If you have a second, please check out

and tell me your (educated) guess. :)

Regards, Evert Meulie

[Tina Gibson]

kinda hard to tell from the painting (which is very lovely!!) but looks almost like tansy.

[Evert Meulie esq.]

Do you mean these:

?

I can see some similarity, I don't think they're the same... The tansy seems to have its buds closer together than the kind on the painting...

Thank you for your swift reply though! :)

Any more/other suggestions?

Regards, Evert Meulie

[Evert Meulie esq.]

PS. Click on the image to make it bigger... :)

[Gene Newcomb]

If the painter is from the warmer climes, probably an acacia (wattle).

Gene Newcomb

"Evert Meulie esq." wrote:

[P van Rijckevorsel]

Stewart Robert Hinsley schreef

• + + My first impression was Acacia, some species of which are cultivated in fairly temperate regions:

this would require the foliage to be from a separate plant or the painter to be unfaithful, neither of which can be precluded PvR

[David Hill]

Mimosa

[David Hill]

Try

Dealbata (Mimosa)

[Elizabeth]

My first impression, too, was Acacia, Then I thought maybe Podocarpus. Now I can't decide :-)

elizabeth

[Evert Meulie esq.]

The painting is signed with 'Latour'. This makes me believe it's either an original or a copy of a work by Henri Fantin-Latour (

), a French painter.

Greetings, Evert Meulie

[Peter Jason]

Wattle

[marcel.roche2]

Certainly acacia. Certainly not dealbata, may be retinoides, because leaves Marcel Roche

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[Evert Meulie esq.]

You might be right here... It does look quite a bit like the various images of wattle I have found on the Internet. If only I'd be able to find the painting in some catalogue, then the 'mystery' would be solved quickly I'd think...

Regards, Evert

[David Hill]

I did send before saying Mimosa, You say the painting is French........well for many years the French sent "Mimosa" to the UK as a cut flower from around February. The plant in question is Acacia dealbata "Silver Wattle" see