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Xavier De Cock

(1818 - 1896)

Artist's flower garden

1890
Oil on canvas
76 x 108,5 cm
Framed: 92,5 x 126,5 cm
Signed and dated lower right: Xavier De Cock / 1890
After successes at the Barbizon School and in Paris, he returned to Deurle and met his wife in 1857. They married in 1860 and moved into a spacious house with a beautiful flower garden at De Vierijzer in Deurle. He will remain there until his death in 1896. This beautiful canvas shows the spacious garden, dated 1890.
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