Still Life with Flowers
Also titled Stilleven met bloemen
Balthasar van der Ast (Middelburg, 1593–1657)
c. 1625 - c. 1630
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: height 75.8 cm x width 59.8 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
A magnificent bouquet of tulips, roses, iris, columbine and gillyflowers is set in a ribbed glass vase. The artist first made a detailed drawing on the prepared panel before beginning to paint. In the intervening centuries, some of the pigments, primarily the lighter colours, have become transparent, allowing the underdrawing to show through.
