This painting shows a bouquet of various colorful flowers bursting out of a glass vase. Two large red and cream tulips are at the top of the bouquet, surrounded by smaller flowers in red, blue, white, pale yellow, and pale purple. Some flowers are drooping over the top of the vase, and a few green leaves and pink buds have fallen to the table below. The glass vase is packed with the long green stems of the flowers, giving it a green appearance. The vase rests on a light gray table, and there is a red and black beetle on the left. A small blue snail with a white shell is visible on the right,…
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Still Life with Tulips

Peter Binoit (German, active 17th century)

1623

Medium
oil on copper
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 24.13 × 19.05 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.) ; framed: 35.88 x 31.12 cm (14 1/8 x 12 1/4 in.)
Culture
German
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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