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Source Description
Soreau, the son of an Antwerp painter in Frankfurt, specialized in "table-top still lifes," featuring fruits, flowers, and insects depicted in ways that appeal to the senses. For example, the sheen on the grapes and color of the mulberries suggest their flavor, while the delicacy of the Chinese porcelain bowl, paired with the glass beaker with tulips, lilies of the valley, and other flowers, appeals to sight and touch.Porcelains made during the reign of the Chinese emperor Wan Li (1572-1619)-the same type bowl as on the bracket above-were appreciated as marvels of Chinese ingenuity. However, the bulbs that produced the tulips at the right were more valuable. Introduced from Turkey a few decades earlier, tulips, especially striped ones, could, in these years, cost as much a farm.
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Document identity
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8100
label
Still Life with Chinese Bowl and Vase of Flowers
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drawing
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Source metadata
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8100
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drawing
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normalized
title
Still Life with Chinese Bowl and Vase of Flowers
description
Soreau, the son of an Antwerp painter in Frankfurt, specialized in "table-top still lifes," featuring fruits, flowers, and insects depicted in ways that appeal to the senses. For example, the sheen on the grapes and color of the mulberries suggest their flavor, while the delicacy of the Chinese porcelain bowl, paired with the glass beaker with tulips, lilies of the valley, and other flowers, appeals to sight and touch.Porcelains made during the reign of the Chinese emperor Wan Li (1572-1619)-the same type bowl as on the bracket above-were appreciated as marvels of Chinese ingenuity. However, the bulbs that produced the tulips at the right were more valuable. Introduced from Turkey a few decades earlier, tulips, especially striped ones, could, in these years, cost as much a farm.
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1635-1638 (Baroque)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
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Painting & Drawing
paintings
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2
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2
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import
dimensions
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cm
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48.8
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64.9
dimensionsRaw
19 3/16 x 25 9/16 in. (48.8 x 64.9 cm)
Source extras
med
oil on panel
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4148
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BAR
exhibition_ids
1994
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1
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photo
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photo
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5000eca4ee3b88c4
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