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Still Life with Flowers in a Glass
Also titled Stilleven met bloemen in een glas
Jan Brueghel (I) (Brussels, 1568–1625)
c. 1602
- Medium
- copper (metal), oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 24.5 cm x width 19 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- A.A. des Tombe Bequest, The Hague
- 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
So many flowers in a small glass of water! This must have made an exceedingly lavish impression on a 17th-century viewer. Flowers were expensive at the time; gardens would have had only a few flowers, surrounded by much greenery. Jan Brueghel II was a faithful follower of his father Jan Brueghel I. This sparkling still life is a variant of a painting by his father.
