Flowers in a Wooden Vessel
around 1606/07, Artist: Jan Brueghel d. Ä.
Flowers in a Wooden Vessel
From 1600 on, painting flowers developed into a separate category of still life. Jan Breughel is one of the main representatives of this genre, with sixteen paintings of this kind attributed to him. The “Flowers in a Wooden Vessel” – one of the most famous depictions of flowers ever created – is not a reflection of a real bouquet, resembling instead an encyclopaedic panorama of rare species. Art and scientific curiosity are combined in this highly meticulous, virtuosic reproduction of 130 different flowers.
Object data
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Netherlandish; Flemish
Dated
around 1606/07
Artist
Jan Brueghel d. Ä. (1568 Brüssel - 1625 Antwerpen) - GND
Material
oak wood
Dimensions
Overall: 97,5 cm × 73 cm
Framed: 124 cm × 99 cm × 6 cm
Image rights
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie
Inv. No.
Gemäldegalerie, 570
Provenance
Coll. Leopold Wilhelm
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