A tall bouquet of mostly celestial-blue, cream-white, and maroon-red flowers fills a rust-red urn, which sits next to a pile of fruit on a brown, stone table in this vertical still life painting. The bouquet is arranged so the flowers fill most of the painting from the upper right corner down to the lower left. The bouquet includes two open, white tulips delicately veined with wine-red streaks at the top center. Two ocean-blue irises are to the right of the tulips, and bluebells are tucked in toward the back of the arrangement, to our left. The bottom half of the bouquet has an anemone…
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Still Life, Flowers, and Fruit

painter Severin Roesen (American, born Germany, 1816 - after 1872)

1848

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 91.44 × 66.04 cm (36 × 26 in.) ; framed: 108 × 82.6 × 5.7 cm (42 1/2 × 32 1/2 × 2 1/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through the gift of Orme Wilson, 1961)
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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