Jerusalem Artichoke Flowers
A cloud of canary-yellow flowers with pumpkin-orange centers on tall stems with emerald and pine-green leaves fills the top half of this vertical still life painting. The flowers, vase, the round tabletop on which they sit, and the background are loosely painted with visible brushstrokes of vibrant color. The flowers have long, pointed petals like daisies. The bouquet is rimmed with a ring of verdant leaves near where the stems gather in the narrow neck of the cylindrical, ivory-white vase. The vase might sit on a circular cloth edged with alternating sage-green and plum-purple forms like pompoms, but the loose painting style makes these details difficult to make out. The round tabletop is cropped by left and bottom edges of the canvas. The background behind the bouquet and table is painted with long, vertical brushstrokes in salmon pink, pale turquoise, denim blue, and creamy white. The artist signed and dated the painting in red in the lower right corner: “Claude Monet 1880.”
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Details
- Artist
- Claude Monet
- Date
- 1880
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 99.6 x 73 cm (39 3/16 x 28 3/4 in.) framed: 121.9 x 95.2 cm (48 x 37 1/2 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
- Chester Dale Collection
Art Genome Taxonomy
10 tags
Subject Matter
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Still Life Both · 99%
The National Gallery of Art describes the work as a vertical still life, and the image visibly centers on an arrangement of cut flowers in a vase on a tabletop.
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Flora Both · 99%
The title and catalog description identify Jerusalem artichoke flowers, which are visibly represented by numerous yellow, daisy-like blooms with orange centers and green leaves.
Styles and Movements
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Impressionism Visual · 88%
The broken brushwork, juxtaposed color touches, and emphasis on atmospheric optical effects support an Impressionist visual reading, although the catalog does not provide a style classification.
Visual Qualities
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Dense Composition Visual · 98%
The composition is densely occupied by overlapping flowers, foliage, stems, vase, tabletop, and active background brushwork, with little visually inactive space.
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Bright and Vivid Colors Both · 98%
Yellow, orange, green, blue, pink, cream, and reddish passages produce a notably vivid palette; the catalog also describes the painting as using vibrant color.
Medium and Techniques
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Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Both · 99%
Distinct short and sweeping strokes are visible throughout the petals, leaves, tabletop, and background, consistent with the catalog description of loose painting and visible brushstrokes.
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Oil Painting Metadata · 100%
The catalog identifies the medium as oil on canvas.
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Painting Metadata · 100%
The National Gallery of Art classifies the work as a painting.
Time Periods
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Late 19th Century Art Metadata · 100%
The work is dated 1880, placing it in the late nineteenth century.
Tableware, Vessels, and Objects
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Vase Both · 99%
A pale cylindrical vase is clearly visible beneath the bouquet, and the catalog description explicitly identifies it as a vase.
Source & rights
Claude Monet. Jerusalem Artichoke Flowers. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.
High-resolution sources
- IIIF image service ↗ 12,622 × 17,418 · National Gallery Of Art · Available