Woman Holding a Vase of Flowers in a Landscape
On this folio from Walters manuscript W.653, a middle-aged woman stands in a landscape, holding a vase of flowers. The salmon pink margins are stenciled with animal and floral forms. The catchword at the lower left indicates that the following folio is missing.
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Details
- Artist
- Unknown artist
- Date
- 1693
- Holding institution
- Walters Art Museum
- Palette
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- Image provider
- wikimedia-commons
- License
- Public domain
- Credit
- Walters Art Museum
Art Genome Taxonomy
9 tags
Subject Matter
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Human Figure Both · 99%
The central framed image visibly depicts a standing woman, and the catalog describes a woman holding a vase of flowers.
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Landscapes Both · 98%
The figure is shown in an outdoor setting, which the catalog explicitly identifies as a landscape.
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Flora Both · 98%
Flowering stems appear in the vase, and the catalog also describes floral forms in the decorated margins.
Visual Qualities
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Patterns Visual · 98%
The salmon-pink surround is densely covered with repeated ornamental animal and botanical forms, producing a strongly patterned surface.
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Earth Tones Visual · 92%
The folio combines a muted salmon, ochre, brown, olive, and blue palette with relatively subdued tonal contrast.
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Highly Ornamented Visual · 97%
The framed miniature, multiband border, and extensively decorated margins make the folio visibly highly ornamented.
Medium and Techniques
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Manuscript Metadata · 100%
The work is identified as a folio from Walters manuscript W.653 and classified as manuscript or decorative art.
Time Periods
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17th Century Art Metadata · 100%
The catalog dates the work to 1693, placing it in the seventeenth century.
Geographic Regions
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Iranian Art Metadata · 84%
The associated source representation labels the work as Iranian, although the supplied museum description does not provide a more specific regional or attributional statement.
Source & rights
Anonymous (Iran)Unknown author. Walters Art Museum: Home page Info about artwork
High-resolution sources
- Original image ↗ 1,079 × 1,800 · Wikimedia Commons · Availability not yet probed