The Overturned Bouquet
The ultimate challenge facing a 17th-century still-life painter was to render various materials in a convincing fashion. Everything had to appear real: a contemporary aptly coined this as ‘semblance without being’. Abraham Mignon was a master of such seeming realism. In this still life the cat playing with a mousetrap has upset a vase of flowers. Amongst the tulips, irises, poppies, and peonies ca…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1660 - 1679
- 1660/1679
- 1660/1679
Place-Time
- third quarter 17th century
- fourth quarter 17th century
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.6745
- SK-A-267
Extent
- height 89.5 cm
- width 71.5 cm
Format
- canvas
- oil paint (paint)
- Canvas
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:14:22.692Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:39.315Z