Victor Gabriel Gilbert — Buying a Bouquet · Watercolour Postcard

Painted in watercolour rather than Victor Gabriel Gilbert's usual oils, this looser, lighter scene catches an elegant lady in black, yellow gloves buttoned to the wrist, choosing a pink bouquet from a flower-cart vendor in a green blouse and blue apron. A colonnaded building and a boulevard carriage fill the background, keeping the transaction firmly in the city rather than a private garden. The thinner washes and visible brushwork give the moment an immediacy his oil paintings rarely have — closer to a quick sketch caught in passing than a composed studio scene. A fitting choice for anyone who collects watercolour art or elegant Parisian street portraits, at 10×15 cm on 350 g/m² card stock. See more refined Parisian women in the Alfred Stevens collection.