A Basket of Flowers
Colors in this work
Details
- Artist
- Jan Brueghel the Younger
- Date
- probably 1620s
- Medium
- Oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 18 1/2 x 26 7/8 in. (47 x 68.3 cm)
- Department
- European Paintings
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967
Art Genome Taxonomy
9 tags
Subject Matter
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Still Life Both · 99%
The museum catalogs the work as a still life with flowers, and the image shows an arrangement of inanimate floral and basket forms.
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Flora Both · 99%
Flowers are listed among the museum’s subjects and visibly dominate the composition, including blossoms in the basket and scattered across the tabletop.
Visual Qualities
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Highly Detailed Visual · 96%
Numerous individual blossoms, leaves, stems, and basket fibers are rendered with localized, finely observed detail.
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Dense Composition Visual · 95%
The basket and floral arrangement form a tightly packed central mass with overlapping stems and blossoms.
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Dark Colors Visual · 95%
A broad nearly black background and dark foliage create a dominant dark tonal field behind the brighter flowers and basket.
Medium and Techniques
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Oil Painting Metadata · 99%
The museum specifies the medium as oil on wood.
Time Periods
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17th Century Art Metadata · 96%
The work is dated probably to the 1620s, placing it within the seventeenth century.
Geographic Regions
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Flanders and Luxembourg Metadata · 90%
The artist is identified in the museum metadata as Flemish and associated with Antwerp; the catalog includes a Flanders and Luxembourg geographic category.
Materials
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Wood Metadata · 99%
The museum specifies wood as the support.
Source & rights
Jan Brueghel the Younger. A Basket of Flowers. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
High-resolution sources
- Original image ↗ 3,811 × 2,744 · Metropolitan Museum Of Art · Available