1688
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Marigolds, single Anemone, Jasmine... is a 1688 by Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows bright marigolds, a single anemone, and jasmine. The flowers pop against a dark background, each petal crisp and shiny. Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer painted these blooms with a skill that makes them almost smell real. Monnoyer worked for French royalty, painting flowers for palaces. He didn’t just copy plants—he made them glow like they’re lit from within. His work helped make flower painting a serious art form in the 1600s. Check out more of Monnoyer’s work at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
In 1939 the Print Club of Cleveland established a memorial collection for Donald Gray, president of the Club 1933–34. Since Mr. Gray was a landscape architect and author of the “Daily Garden” column for The Cleveland Press, a now defunct newspaper, the choice of 15 prints and one drawing of flower and fruit subjects was an appropriate tribute. These were the first botanical prints to enter the collection, which has grown to a large representation of more than 100 prints and related drawings.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (12 January 1636 – 20 February 1699) was a Franco-Flemish painter who specialised in flower pieces.
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