Wanted: Paintings of peonies or cherry blossom

Study of Peonies by Martin Schongauer

For all those who paint peonies or cherry blossom​.

I've had a query from a potential purchaser. The email is reproduced below minus the name.

​I think it's genuine as in the normal characteristics of scam emails are missing i.e. good command of English; no mention of money; I've googled the name and it doesn't come up on any scam list and LinkedIn identifies some reputable people with the name!

I am looking for some help to identify some botanical art for sale.
I would like to buy a picture of either a peony or a cherry blossom for my wife for her birthday and could do with some help finding artists who may have these pieces for sale.
Would you be able to point me in the right direction?

At the moment the potential purchaser - of a painting of a peony or cherry blossom - just wants to be pointed in the direction of artists who may have work for sale.

So this is an experiment.  

​I don't yet know his budget or where he lives but should know shortly.

If you have a completed painting of a peony or cherry blossom (either/or)
please can you contact me with the following:

• title of the painting - and what it depicts
• details of the media and support used
• the dimensions of the image
• whether it is available matted or frame
• the price - without shipping
• your name
  
• your contact details (re. sales)
  
• your website

I will then send you an email asking for a copy of an image of the painting - this needs to be good enough quality for making a decision.

Once the image has been received I will then forward any suitable images and associated details to the gentleman in question and he can then take it forward with the artist of the chosen painting.

You can contact me via the Feedback Form on the Contact Page of my website

Please note this is not an open-ended request for images and I'll come back and close this request down at some point.
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Study of Peonies by Martin Schongauer
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The image at the top of this post is Paeonia officinalis by Martin Schongauer (1472-73).

Part of this painting was chosen by William T Stearn for the cover of Second Revised Edition (1994) of The Art of Botanical Illustration by Wilfrid Blunt (1901-1987) and William T Stearn (1911-2001). This book was first published in 1950 and resulted in Wilfrid Blunt being awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society

The important thing about the drawing is that it predates Durer and hence is one of the very first 'natural' botanical drawings in Europe.

One of the earliest surviving northern European botanical studies drawn from life, this drawing shows a fully opened peony bloom, viewed first from the front and then from the back, and one bud. Martin Schongauer achieved subtly gradated coloration by laying in the basic forms in a broad painterly wash and then describing the details in bodycolor, opaque water-based color, with the point of the brush. 

​Getty Museum

Fritz Koreny of the Graphisch Sammlung Albertina, Vienna recognised it as a prepatatory study for the peony depicted in the celebrated altarpiece Madonna of the Rose Garden by Martin Schongauer (c. 1445 – 2 February 1491). This was painted for the Dominican church of St Martin at Colmar - which was Schongauer's birthplace.

This study of peonies marks the birth of scientific depiction of nature in Germany 

​Fritz Koreny 1991 - in A Coloured Flower Study by Martin Schongauer and the Development of the Depiction of Nature from van der Weyden to Dürer

The painting is in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California.

The painting with its peony to the left of the Madonna's waist can still be seen in Colmar

Madonna of the Rose Garden by Martin Schongauer in the Dominican Church in Colmar, France