Painting
Flowers in a Glass
Ambrosius Bosschaert
1606
From the archive
One of the first artists to specialize in flower painting, Ambrosius Bosschaert may have been inspired by the botanical gardens and scientific collections in his hometown of Middelburg. The flowers in this bouquet might be common today, but in the 1600s they were costly rarities. Bosschaert captured their fragile beauty with luminous colors and exquisite detail.
- Associated place
- Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Material & technique
- oil on copper
The record behind the work
Place & date
The museum gives the cultural attribution “Netherlands”. The pin represents this broad cultural association, not a verified creation site or depicted location.
Source & reuse
Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
Source ID: 136207
CC0 — image and metadata released under the Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access program. Published from the United States.
