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Yellow and White Lilies
Also titled Gele en witte lelies
Willem van Leen (Dordrecht, 1753–1825)
c. 1780
- Medium
- paper, ink, watercolor (paint), chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 215 mm x width 138 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
At the age of twenty Willem van Leen moved to Paris, where he lived for three years. There, he frequently drew the – often exotic – blooms in the Jardin des Plantes. Upon his return he specialised in flower painting, and became an art dealer. Van Leen made studies of flowers – like these lilies, which were sent to him – into old age. He used them to compose his painted still lifes.
