Vase of Flowers
Vase of Flowers c1645 by Dutch Painter Jan Davidsz de Heem (1606 – 1684); a still life artist that was representative of Dutch and Flemish Baroque painting styles.
A beautiful still life portrayal featuring a large bouquet assortment of flowers that have been placed in a glass vase that is resting on a reddish-brown marble table.
In the vase are many green plants forming a base and wonderful collection of violet and white, red and white, blue, orange, pink, yellow, white flowers; including blue berries.
Within the bouquet there caterpillars, wasps, ants of different sizes, as well as a spider, butterflies, snails and a lizard. There are also green and gold colored seed pods and wheat.
This is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a canvas print online.
Below Derived From Wikipedia.org
Jan was born to David de Heem the Elder (1570 – 1631), and first studied with his father before studying under Dutch Golden Age Still Life Painter Balthasar van der Ast (1593-94 – 1657); then in 1629 at the age of 23 studied under Dutch Golden Age Painter David Bailly (1584 – 1657).
When he was 29 he moved to the Southern Netherlands and joined the Guild of Saint Luke burgher (upper middle class individual) of that city in 1637.
Often considered to be one of the greatest painters of his time, he was always in great demand and was well paid for the artwork which he produced during the Dutch Golden Age.