Flowers in a Glass Flask. 마우리츠하위스(Mauritshuis). 덴하그(Den Haag, 헤이그:Hague)

Flowers in a Glass Flask. 마우리츠하위스(Mauritshuis).

덴하그(Den Haag, 헤이그:Hague). 네덜란드(Netherland)

Jacob de Gheyn II

Flowers in a Glass Flask

1612

De Gheyn, a painter from The Hague, may have been the first Dutch master to paint a still-life of only flowers, shortly after 1600. He made this painting over ten years later. It shows a profuse bouquet of many different flowers.

 

De Gheyn has not copied an existing bouquet, as the flowers depicted here bloom at different times of the year. He was concerned instead with painting a ‘portrait’ of the most beautiful flowers. This is why he placed them all at the front of the bouquet, where they were equally visible.

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