#Dutch still-life painters

[kecobe]

Stilleven met bosaardbeien = Still Life with Wild Strawberries Adriaen Coorte (Dutch; active ca. 1683–1707) 1705 Oil on paper mounted on panel Mauritshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands

[pintoras]

Margaretha Roosenboom (Dutch, 1843-1896): Still life of dog-roses (via Bonhams)

[mary-maud]

At the exhibition of Dutch flower paintings, Sheffield, July 2023 💐

[collectionstilllife]

Evert Collier (Dutch, 1642 - 1708) • Vanitas - Still Life with Books, Manuscripts and a Skull • 1663

[galleryofart]

Roses

Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)

Date: 1890

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States

Description

Roses was painted shortly before Van Gogh's release from the asylum at Saint–Rémy. He felt he was coming to terms with his illness - and himself. In this healing process, painting was all - important. During those final three weeks of his recovery, he wrote his brother Theo, he had "worked as in a frenzy. Great bunches of flowers, violet irises, big bouquets of roses…"

This is one of two rose paintings Van Gogh made at that time. It is among his largest and most beautiful still lifes, with an exuberant bouquet in the glory of full bloom. Although he sometimes assigned certain meanings to flowers, Van Gogh did not make a specific association for roses. It is clear, though, that he saw all blossoming plants as celebrations of birth and renewal - as full of life. That sense is underscored here by the fresh spring green of the background. The undulating ribbons of paint, applied in diagonal strokes, animate the canvas and play off the furled forms of flowers and leaves.

Originally, the roses were pink - the color has faded - and would have created a contrast of complementary colors with the green. Such combinations of complements fascinated Van Gogh. The paint is very thick - so thick that both rose paintings were left behind when Van Gogh left Saint–Rémy on May 16, 1890. As he explained to Theo, "these canvases will take a whole month to dry, but the attendant here will undertake to send them off after my departure." They arrived in Auvers by June 24.

[interventionlullabies]

Pieter Claesz, Vanitas Still Life, 1625

[the-cricket-chirps]

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, Vase of Flowers in a Window, 1618

[love-for-carnation]

Maria van Oosterwyck, also spelled Oosterwijck (1630–1693, Dutch)

Maria was a Dutch Golden Age painter, specializing in richly detailed flower paintings and other still lifes. The daughter of a clergyman, Maria is thought to have studied with Jan Davidsz de Heem and her compositions certainly betray his influence. She never married, although Houbraken claimed that she was courted by her fellow artist Willem van Aelst. Her paintings were much admired by her contemporaries and she received considerable patronage from various European monarchs including Louis XIV, Emperor Leopold I and Stadholder-King William III.

Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_van_Oosterwijck Other artworks: https://www.artnet.com/artists/maria-van-oosterwyck/2

[crystalclaire]

details from Flower Still Life with Bird's Nest, Jan van Huysum (1682 - 1749) c. 1718, Oil on copper

[abwwia]

Clara Peeters, Still Life of Fish and Cat, after 1620; Oil on panel, 13 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gift of Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay

[daughterofchaos]

Detail of Vase of Flowers with a Curtain by Jacques de Gheyn II, ca. 1615, Dutch, Oil on Panel

[kecobe]

Still Life with Asparagus and Red Currants Adriaen Coorte (Dutch; active ca. 1683–1707) 1696 Oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

[pintoras]

Anna Reijerman (Dutch, 1773-1835): Floral still life (via Düsseldorfer Auktionshaus)

[royalty-nobility]

Mary of Modena

Artist: Simon Pietersz Verelst (Dutch, 1644-1699)

Date: c. 1680

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Description

Mary of Modena (Italian: Maria Beatrice Eleonora Anna Margherita Isabella d'Este was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland as the second wife of James II and VII. A devout Catholic, Mary married the widower James, who was then the younger brother and heir presumptive of Charles II. She was devoted to James and their children, two of whom survived to adulthood: the Jacobite claimant to the thrones, James Francis Edward, and Louisa Maria Teresa.

[collectionstilllife]

Willem Claeszoon Heda (Dutch, 1594-1670) • Still Life with Silver Cup • 1637

[midwestaesthetics]

Slices of everyday life in the Dutch Republic as captured by the painters of the Dutch Golden Age (circa 1568-1672)...