Still life with flowers including Campsis radicans (Trumpet Vine); Digitalis purpurea (Foxglove); Dahlia imperialis (Dahlia); Rosa (Bourbon Rose); Callistephus chinensis (Chinese Aster); Trapaeolum majus (Nasturicum); and Naricissus tazetta (Daffodil)

Emma-Andre-Felicit Desportes de la Fosse, ne Beuselin, was a pupil of Auguste Jean-Baptiste Vinchon (1789-1855), the history and frescoe painter, who decorated many churches in Paris.
Desportes exhibited in the Paris Salon from 1835 to 1868 winning the third class medal in 1840 and the second class medal in 1842.
For a watercolour by the artist, dated 1836, see Hadouin-Fugier, French Flower Painters of the 19th Century, London, 1989, p. 190, illustrated in colour.
The landscape background is unusual for this type of still-life, the combination of oil and watercolour on vellum is also unusual. It is however reminiscent of the painted settings for the plates in Robert Thornton's Temple of Flora, London, 1799-1807. An oil painting of the Tiger Lily with a similar background, painted by Philip Reinagle (1749-1833) is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (see Blunt, p. 243, pl. 85).