Flowers in a Vase
1669
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1669
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Flowers in a Vase is a 1669 unspecified by Simon Pietersz Verelst, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
A glass vase holds three big flowers—a pink-tipped white narcissus, a red anemone, and a rose. Tiny petals and leaves spill around it on a stone ledge. The vase shows a faint window reflection, but not the window itself. Verelst paints petals so real you half expect perfume. He leaves chips in the stone edge on purpose. The light hits one petal, letting the rest fade softly. Check out this flower power at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
With just a few flowers, Verelst created a composition of great sophistication and balance. A simple glass flask is filled with a large rose, a red anemone, and a white narcissus tinged with pink. These flowers are surrounded by a scattering of smaller blossoms. Like many still-life painters, Verelst depicted a window reflected in the glass vase, but here he did not show the window's precise structure. He did, however, use another common device: the depiction of a few chips in the stone surface to make the material seem more tangible. Early in his career, Verelst moved from Holland to London,…
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Simon Pietersz Verelst (1644–c. 1710-1717) was an Anglo-Dutch painter. He is known for outstanding flower and fruit still life paintings.
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