A sunlit bowl of pale and deep pink flowers sits on a white curtain draped over the sill of an open window in this vertical still life painting. The sill comes about a third of the way up the composition, and the open window and landscape beyond fills the top two-thirds. Shell-pink and ruby-red flowers with pine-green leaves fill the shallow, slate-gray bowl. Sunshine highlights one white flower and one blush-pink flower, perhaps roses. The white curtain falls over the right half of the window and pools on the sill before draping down and off the bottom edge of the composition. Sunlight…
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Flowers on a Window Ledge

painter John La Farge (American, 1835 - 1910)

c. 1861

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 61.4 × 51 cm (24 3/16 × 20 1/16 in.) ; framed: 76.2 × 66 × 7.6 cm (30 × 26 × 3 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Anna E. Clark Fund, 1949)
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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