English: Francesco Bosso (1864-1933), floral still life. The work displays some signature characteristics of the artist's decorative floral still lifes: painted in oil, round in shape, with an elaborately carved and glided frame. Artisanship is evident in each component: the image is painted by hand, the circular matting is hand-cut and hand-painted with green flourishes, and the frame is hand-carved. The materials are common and fragile—the matting is thin, the painting is on cardboard, and the frame is pine—but the presentation registers as lavish and opulent. Bosso was first known as a stage scenery designer, where, as in these still lifes, what is seen from the backFile:Bosso-floral_still_life_in_painted_circular_matting--verso.jpg and what the viewer sees are not the same; perceived values are in the workmanship, not the materials.

A written note on backing paper verso reads "frutti fiori del Foà", which may indicate the work was commissioned or collected by a member of the Jewish Foà family prominent in Vercelli and Turin, where the artist lived and worked.[1] Although the painting is undated, newspaper used as backing paper is dated January 17, 1923, indicating the work was created no earlier than that date and no later than 1933, the year Bosso died.