Small Bouquet of Flowers
around 1607 | Jan Brueghel d. Ä.
The “Small Bouquet of Flowers” is among the most finest pictures of flowers in existence. Dominated by blue tones, the composition is of the highest subtlety. The uprooted cyclamen stalks as well as the coins, jewellery and rings point to the transience of all things mortal. The year 1599 on one of the coins does not date the picture but is rather an indication of when work was started on the painting..
The “Small Bouquet of Flowers” is among the most finest pictures of flowers in existence. Dominated by blue tones, the composition is of the highest subtlety. The uprooted cyclamen stalks as well as the coins, jewellery and rings point to the transience of all things mortal. The year 1599 on one of the coins does not date the picture but is rather an indication of when work was started on the painting..
Artist:
Jan Brueghel d. Ä. (1568 Brüssel - 1625 Antwerpen) DNB
Time:
around 1607
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Netherlandish; Flemish
Material/technology:
oak wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 50,3 cm × 40,6 cm × 0,7 cm
Framed: 66 cm × 55,5 cm × 4,5 cm
Signed
on a coin the year: 1599
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 548
Provenance
1747 in the secular treasury in Vienna; 1781 documented in the gallery in Vienna;