# Yellow and White Lilies

- By: Willem van Leen (Dordrecht, 1753–1825)
- Date: c. 1780
- Medium: paper, ink, watercolor (paint), chalk
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 215 mm x width 138 mm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-1976-67--504254942f74aa7615a2a2b78fd72500)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/a2c7e0a8d5675ab189d08f4542adb23e.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.