Bouquet of Flowers in a Blue Vase
around 1608 | Jan Brueghel d. Ä.
Small stylistic changes in the “Vienna Bunch of Tulips”, as this painting is also called, in comparison with the “Flowers in a Wooden Vessel” (Inv.No. GG 570), allow us to date it as later than the latter. For the first time, a large rose blossom is intersected by stalks and eclipsed by another blossom. Particularly striking beneath the fiery tulips and flaming iris blossoms is the grey-blue-black mourning iris, a specimen rarely illustrated.
Small stylistic changes in the “Vienna Bunch of Tulips”, as this painting is also called, in comparison with the “Flowers in a Wooden Vessel” (Inv.No. GG 570), allow us to date it as later than the latter. For the first time, a large rose blossom is intersected by stalks and eclipsed by another blossom. Particularly striking beneath the fiery tulips and flaming iris blossoms is the grey-blue-black mourning iris, a specimen rarely illustrated.
Artist:
Jan Brueghel d. Ä. (1568 Brüssel - 1625 Antwerpen) DNB
Time:
around 1608
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Netherlandish; Flemish
Material/technology:
oak wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 65,8 cm × 51 cm × 0,7 cm
Framed: 82 cm × 68,5 cm × 6,5 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 558
Provenance
Treasure chamber (?); 1781 documented in the gallery;