Impressionistic still life with flowers was executed in the late 19th century by Austrian female still life painter Hermine Haader ( 1855 - Vienna - 1928). Hermine Haader came from a long-established Viennese bourgeois family. Her father was the court cloth merchant Johann Haader. She received her artistic training from Hugo Darnaut, Carl Hasch, Carl Haunold and Olga Wisinger-Florian. She lived and worked in Vienna Neubau district. Hermine Haader painted still lifes, especially flower and fruit pieces, as well as landscapes in oil and watercolor. She participated in a number of exhibitions, including those in Carlsbad, Brno, Dresden, and Vienna. For example, she presented a still life at the autumn exhibition in the Vienna Künstlerhaus in 1906. She died in Vienna in 1928 after a serious illness. Works: Snow Roses, oil, 1891, Vienna Artists' Club Exhibition; Summer Greeting, Spanish Grapes, and In the Snow, 1900, at the Women's Trade Exhibition, Vienna; Currant Stem, 1901, at the Exhibition of the Association of Austrian Visual Artists, Vienna; Southern Grapes, signed lower left "Haader," 1913, oil on canvas; Poppies, pastel on paper, 22.5 × 30 cm; Alpine Rose from the Rax, oil on canvas. Literature: lexicon of Austrian Artists by Prof.H.Fuchs; on-line Wikipedia in German. Inscription: signed lower right. Technique: oil on canvas, laid down on cardboard, framed. Measurements: unframed w 21 1/4" x h 14 1/8" (54 x 36 cm), framed 24 3/8" x 17 3/4" ( 62 x 45 cm). Condition: good original condition.