Vase of Flowers
A vase holding mostly white flowers sits on a floral-patterned cloth in this vertical still life painting. The ice-blue vase has a narrow foot, tall, slightly tapering sides, round shoulders, and a long neck flanked by handles. An ivory-white circle at the center could be a flower painted on the body. The flowers the vase holds are all pearl and snow white except for two golden yellow flowers and dark greenery. The cloth on which the vase sits is patterned with muted red and dark yellow flowers with green leaves against parchment white and earth brown. A few brown lines cutting across the bottom left corner of the painting could be the edge of a wooden table. Just behind the flowers, a cloth or curtain patterned with dark yellow, moss green, and spruce blue hangs against a teal-green wall, visible along each side of the composition. The objects are loosely painted and outlined with cobalt blue.
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Details
- Artist
- Paul Cezanne
- Date
- 1900/1903
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 101 x 81.9 cm (39 3/4 x 32 1/4 in.) framed: 125.1 x 106.4 x 5.1 cm (49 1/4 x 41 7/8 x 2 in.)
- Department
- CF
- Holding institution
- National Gallery of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- national-gallery-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer
Art Genome Taxonomy
10 tags
Subject Matter
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Still Life Both · 99%
The museum metadata identifies the work as a vertical still life, and the image clearly shows an arranged vase of flowers on a covered surface.
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Flora Both · 99%
Flowers and foliage dominate the composition; the catalog specifically describes mostly white flowers, two golden-yellow flowers, and dark greenery.
Visual Qualities
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Dark Colors Visual · 94%
Deep teal, green, blue, brown, and ocher passages dominate the image, producing an overall dark tonal effect despite areas of white and yellow.
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Dense Composition Visual · 95%
The bouquet, vase, drapery, and lower cloth occupy most of the picture plane in a tightly packed arrangement with limited open space.
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Patterns Both · 96%
Floral and leafy motifs are visible in the lower cloth and the textile or curtain behind the bouquet, and the catalog explicitly describes both surfaces as patterned.
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Curvilinear Forms Visual · 90%
The vase handles, flower heads, foliage, and textile motifs are articulated through repeated rounded, looping, and winding contours.
Medium and Techniques
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Oil Painting Metadata · 99%
The museum metadata specifies the medium as oil on canvas.
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Painting Metadata · 99%
The catalog classifies the object as a painting.
Time Periods
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1900 - 1917 Art Metadata · 99%
The stated date range is 1900–1903, which falls within the catalog’s 1900–1917 period category.
Tableware, Vessels, and Objects
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Vase Both · 99%
A prominent handled vase is the central object, and the catalog explicitly identifies it as an ice-blue vase.
Source & rights
Paul Cezanne. Vase of Flowers. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.
High-resolution sources
- IIIF image service ↗ 12,883 × 15,923 · National Gallery Of Art · Available