Artwork
Flowers
Flowers is an unspecified painting by the Rococo painting artist Dominicus Gottfried Waerdigh. It dates from 1752 and is held in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst.
About this work
Subject & Meaning
The painting is housed at the Statens Museum for Kunst, where it remains part of the permanent display of Northern European still-life works.
The still-life work titled Flowers, painted by Dominicus Gottfried Waerdigh in 1752, depicts a bouquet of blossoms arranged to emphasize natural abundance and transience, a common motif in 18th-century European decorative art that conveys both aesthetic pleasure and the fleeting nature of life. The composition features peonies, roses, and other garden flowers rendered with meticulous detail, reflecting the artist’s interest in botanical accuracy and the symbolic association of flowers with purity and mortality. Its large dimensions of 770 cm by 620 cm underscore the grandeur of the genre within the museum’s collection.
The painting is housed at the Statens Museum for Kunst, where it remains part of the permanent display of Northern European still-life works.
Technique & Style
The painting Flowers, created in 1752 by Dominicus Gottfried Waerdigh, is executed in oil on canvas, measuring 770 cm in height by 620 cm in width. It depicts a still life arrangement of blossoms rendered with delicate brushwork that emphasizes naturalistic detail and subtle tonal variation. The work has been preserved in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst, where it remains on public view.
History & Provenance
Flowers is a still life painting by Dominicus Gottfried Waerdigh dated 1752. The work is held in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst, where it has been located as part of that institution's holdings. The painting, measuring 770.0 in height by 620.0 in width, depicts flowers and is classified as a still life genre work.
The sources do not provide additional details regarding the original commission, prior owners, or the chain of custody prior to the work entering the Statens Museum for Kunst collection.
The painting Flowers by Dominicus Gottfried Waerdigh, created in 1752, resides in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst. It measures 770.0 cm in height and 620.0 cm in width. The work has been exhibited at the Statens Museum for Kunst as part of its display of still-life paintings.
Overview
Dominicus Gottfried Waerdigh’s 1752 oil painting entitled Flowers is a still‑life composition in the collection of Denmark’s Statens Museum for Kunst. The work presents an abundant arrangement of blossoms and fruit rendered on a dark, warm‑brown backdrop, inviting the viewer to examine the interplay of colour and light across the varied botanical elements.
Context
Flowers reflects the eighteenth‑century fascination with naturalistic representation and decorative excess typical of Rococo interior aesthetics. The inclusion of both flora and fruit mirrors contemporary interests in cataloguing nature’s variety, while the composition’s informal arrangement departs from the more formal, symmetrical bouquets of earlier Baroque still lifes.
Artist & collection
Artist
Dominicus Gottfried Waerdigh (1700–1789) was an artist, born in Hamburg.
