Genre
Flowers
Cut flowers brought colour and brevity indoors. The Dutch and Flemish flower painters of the 1600s assembled tulips, roses, and irises that never bloomed in the same season, building bouquets that could not exist, each blossom observed with a botanist's care and arranged to say that beauty does not last.
Key artists
Works
Lake Lucerne
Pandora
The Nymph of Fontainebleau
Garden at Sainte-Adresse
Emma Homan
The Daughters of Catulle Mendès
Flora
Flowers in an Urn
Annunciation
Susanna Truax
The Equatorial Jungle
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers
Untitled
Watson Van Benthuysen II and Thomas Van Benthuysen
Still Life: Flowers and Fruit
Catherina Elmendorf
The Three Graces
Reclining Venus
Cutting the Stone
The Siesta
The Family of Mr. Westfal in the Conservatory
The woman conversing with her children, as the leopard returns, egged on by a fox who is tied to his leg, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirtieth Night
Portrait of a Lady
Vanitas Still Life
Portrait of a Young Woman as a Vestal Virgin
Hummingbird and Passionflowers
Hummingbird and Apple Blossoms
Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly
Portrait of a Man
Strawberries and Cream
Mrs. Samuel Cutts
Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners
Paradiesgärtlein
Magnolia
The Young Virgin
Two Tahitian Women
Vase of Flowers and Conch Shell
Young Mother Sewing
Roses
The Strawberry Girl
Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth
式部輝忠筆 夏秋花鳥図|Birds and Flowers of Summer and Autumn
Flora and Zephyr
Flowers in a Vase
Mrs. Samuel Gardiner
Young Woman with a Pink
Lilacs in a Window
Vanitas Still Life
Spring: Margot Standing in a Garden (Fillette dans un jardin)
The Fall of Man
The Cartographer Professor Josef Jüttner and His Wife
Still Life with Peonies
Jerusalem Artichoke Flowers
Italianate Landscape with Pines
La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)
Celia Thaxter's Garden, Isles of Shoals, Maine
八橋図屏風 |Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges)
Little Girl with Flowers (Amelia Palmer)
Garden at Vaucresson
Bouquet of Small Chrysanthemums
Untitled
Flowers in a Grotesque Vase
Still Life with Strawberries
Still Life with Flowers, Fan, and Pearls
Carmencita
Interior
Still Life—Flowers and Fruit in White and Pink Bowl
Untitled
The Brioche
Mary Magdalene in a Grotto
Symbols of Longevity: Deer under Peach and Pine (Peach) (left)
南宋 佚名 竹梅小禽圖 團扇|Sparrows, plum blossoms, and bamboo
A Basket of Flowers
Flowers in a Blue Vase
Portrait of a Boy
The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant
Broad Acres
Untitled
Album of Fifty-four Sketches
Untitled
明/清 陳洪綬、陳字 雜畫 冊|Figures, flowers, and landscapes
Asters and Fruit on a Table
狩野常信筆 滝見業平図|Nunobiki Waterfall, Mount Yoshino, and Tatsuta River
Still Life with Flowers and Fruit
Still Life with Flowers and Prickly Pears
Untitled
Copy after "Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)"
Francesca Ghirardi Lechi
清原雪信筆 緋連雀桜竹図|Waxwings, Cherry Blossoms, and Bamboo
Still Life with Silver
Venus in Atrium
Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase
The Water Garden
Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
Spring in Brittany
Yellow Warbler
Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds
Duchess de Fitz-James
Woman with a Red Zinnia (Revery)
Bouquet of Flowers in a Glass Vase
Mlle Charlotte Berthier
Still Life with Flowers and Fruit
Still Life, Flowers, and Fruit
Venus of Urbino
Chrysanthemum
The Immaculate Conception
Flowers in a Glass
A young Woman
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
Portraits of the Qianlong Emperor and His Twelve Consorts
Portrait of Dora Wheeler
The monkey advises the suspicious lion to cast off fear and take possession of his territory, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-ninth Night
Fishermen-Hermits in Stream and Mountain
Christ
A Month's Darning
Untitled
清 虛谷 蝶貓圖 軸|Cat and Butterfly
A Vase with Flowers
The Large Bouquet
A Bouquet of Flowers in a Crystal Vase
Flowers of the Field
老梅図襖|Old Plum
Spring
Woman with a Pink
右都御史筆 麝香猫図|Musk Cat
Portrait of a Lady (Possibly Hannah Stillman)
Victorian Interior II
明/清 佚名 梅竹圖 冊頁|Flowering Plum and Bamboo
Still Life with Pansies
狩野永納筆 唐子遊図屏風|One Hundred Boys
Pink Azalea—Chinese Vase
Irises
Portrait of a Woman
The Flower Girl
明 劉俊 納諫圖 軸|Remonstrating with the emperor
Landscape
Untitled
Untitled
Young Woman Seated on a Sofa
Bouquet of Flowers
Basket of Flowers
Untitled
Portrait of a Girl with Flowers
Child Asleep (The Rosebud)
Christiana Stille Keen
清 石濤 (朱若極) 野色圖 冊|Wilderness Colors
明/清 項聖謨 山水花鳥圖 冊|Landscapes, Flowers and Birds
Windflowers
Louise
Untitled
Nasturtiums with the Painting "Dance" I
Mythological portrait of Louis XIV and the royal family
Flowers in a Crystal Vase
Memorial to Nicholas M. S. Catlin
Flowers in a Vase
Still Life
The Burnish Sisters
Flowers in a Vase
Miss Grace Woodhouse
Girl in Red with Flowers and a Distelfink
Pansies
Lucy Tappan Bowen (Mrs. Henry C. Bowen)
Flowers in a Rococo Vase
Young Woman with Peonies
Flowers in a Classical Vase
Peonies
A Hanging Bouquet of Flowers
Flowers on a Window Ledge
The Artist's Paint Box and Moss Roses
An orchard in bloom
Vase of Flowers
Garlanding the Statuette of Cupid
Still Life: Bouquet of Flowers Emerging from the Grass
Monkeys on a Rock Ledge
Bamboo, Rock, and Tall Tree
Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines: Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita: Back Cover
Monju Riding Lion with Attendants
Banana Plant and Chrysanthemum
The lion returns to his territory and sees the monkey conversing with the lynx, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-ninth Night
Cleansing Medicinal Herbs in the Stream on a Spring Day
Krishna Playing the Flute and other Episodes from the Bhagavata Purana
Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
Krishna Steals the Clothes of the Milkmaids and Expounds on the Virtue of Trees, from a Braj Bhagavata Purana
Portrait of Infante Don Luis de Borbon
Paintings after Ancient Masters: Scholars in a Garden
Markandeya Viewing Krishna in the Cosmic Ocean
Kali and Devi Attack: Leaf from a Devi Mahatmya
The Virgin Crowned by Angels
Untitled
蜀山人（大田 南畝）賛 雪・月・花図 |Snow, Moon, and Cherry Blossoms (Yoshiwara in Three Seasons)
Gamepiece with a Dead Heron ("Falconer's Bag")
Peach Blossoms—Villiers-le-Bel
Vase of Flowers
Spring (Fruit Trees in Bloom)
清 汪士慎 山水花卉圖 冊|Landscapes and Flowers
Flowers by a Stone Vase
Espagnole: Harmonie en bleu (Spanish Woman: Harmony in Blue)
A Bouquet of Flowers
Woman with a Mirror (Femme qui se mire)
Beach No. 3
Frequently asked questions
What is Flowers?
Flowers is a motif in painting. Cut flowers brought colour and brevity indoors.
How many Flowers works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 1,724 public-domain Flowers works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Flowers artists?
Key Flowers artists in the collection include Titian, Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet.