The Overturned Bouquet
Also titled De omvergeworpen ruiker
Abraham Mignon (Frankfurt am Main, 1640–1679)
1660 - 1679
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 89.5 cm x width 71.5 cm
- 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
The ultimate challenge facing a 17th-century still-life painter was to render various materials in a convincing fashion. Everything had to appear real: a contemporary aptly coined this as ‘semblance without being’. Abraham Mignon was a master of such seeming realism. In this still life the cat playing with a mousetrap has upset a vase of flowers. Amongst the tulips, irises, poppies, and peonies can be discerned ants, spiders, caterpillars, and snails.
