Two Lilac Flowers – O'Tama Kiyohara – Palazzo dei Normanni, Palermo

Two lilac peonies (Paeonia lactiflora) bloom on a long stem with slender leaves, softly painted in watercolour. It is one of the works of the Japanese painter O'Tama Kiyohara (1861–1939), wife of the Palermo sculptor Vincenzo Ragusa, shown at the Royal Palace in 2020 from the Palermo museum named after the couple.