A loose arrangement of colorful wildflowers bursting out of a red clay jug sits near the back left corner of a tabletop and fills the top two-thirds of this vertical still life painting. Soft light from the lower left illuminates tight clusters of silvery gray and white blooms up along the center, which are surrounded by delicate butter and lemon-yellow flowers on tall stems covered with pine and pea-green leaves. Brilliant poppy-red and cornflower-blue flowers punctuate the upper right and lower left of the arrangement. Small flowers in the lower right are painted with short daubs of navy…
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Flowers in a Vase

Auguste Renoir (French, 1841 - 1919)

c. 1866

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 81.3 x 65.1 cm (32 x 25 5/8 in.) ; framed: 98.4 x 83.2 x 8.3 cm (38 3/4 x 32 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
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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