This painting shows a bouquet of various colorful flowers bursting out of a glass vase. A large, bright orange lily is at the center, surrounded by a variety of large and small flowers in red, white, blue, yellow, and pink, with a large blue iris in the top right corner. Some flowers are drooping over the top of the vase, and a few small ones 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 brown beetle on the left and a caterpillar on the right, near the edge…
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Still Life with Iris

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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