{"product_id":"barbara-diet","title":"Barbara Regina Dietzsch 18th.Century German School Botanical Study Of A Chinese Aster With A Butterfly Circa.1780","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAttr. Barbara Regina Dietzsch 1706-1783. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLate 18th.Century German School. Botanical still life depicting a Chinese Aster with a Butterfly, Gouache watercolour. 10.5\" x 7.5\" (26.7 x 19cm)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBarbara Regina Dietzsch was born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg in 1706 into an artistic family. Alongside her sister Margaretha she specialized in watercolour and gouache paintings of animals and plants, primarily flowers. Her works are typically identifiable by their brown, black or otherwise monochromatic backgrounds. Many of these works were made into engravings, the majority of which Dietzsch created herself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHighly successful and sought after in her lifetime, her works were collected throughout Germany, England, Holland, and France.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Dietzsch family used their art to portray the natural world in a way that reflected the philosophical and scientific advancements of their time. Germaine Greer describes Dietzsch's work as \"exact and linear, as one might expect of designs for engraving, but in her more ambitious flower pieces she exhibited a conservatism of approach which was fairly antiquarian.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe similarities in style and subject matter of works by Dietzsch and those by her family members do cause challenges in attribution, this work may possibly be by Margaretha's hand,  the two sisters work being pretty much indistinguishable from each other.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe image depicts Callistephus Chinensis, commonly known as Chinese Aster, featuring three flower heads in varying stages of bloom and a small white butterfly perched on one of the flowers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patrick Boyd-Carpenter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55192410292601,"sku":null,"price":1200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/0291\/6033\/files\/5a9f778a-51e4-46ed-8ec6-b2ac00d767f5-1.jpg?v=1746853548","url":"https:\/\/www.pbcfineart.co.uk\/products\/barbara-diet","provider":"Patrick Boyd-Carpenter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}