A glass holding a loose bouquet of flowers set within an oval is surrounded by eight insects against an off-white surface in this vertical still life painting. It is impossible to tell whether the oval is an opening piercing the white surface or if the still life is an oval-shaped painting sitting on top of the white surface. The glass holding the flowers has straight, slightly flaring sides with a ring of textured knubs around the bottom third. Flowers in the glass include a white lily of the valley, yellow and purple violet, blue grape hyacinth, yellow narcissus, red poppy, upside-down…
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Still Life with Flowers Surrounded by Insects and a Snail

painter Clara Peeters (Flemish, c. 1594 - c. 1640)

c. 1610

Medium
oil on copper
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 16.6 × 13.5 cm (6 9/16 × 5 5/16 in.) ; framed: 25.4 × 22.86 × 3.81 cm (10 × 9 × 1 1/2 in.)
Culture
Flemish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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