Still Life with Iris

Deutsche Malerei 1622–1924, 1623

This painting shows a bouquet of various colorful flowers bursting out of a glass vase. A large, bright orange lily is at the center, surrounded by a variety of large and small flowers in red, white, blue, yellow, and pink, with a large blue iris in the top right corner. Some flowers are drooping over the top of the vase, and a few small ones have fallen to the table below. The glass vase is packed with the long green stems of the flowers, giving it a green appearance. The vase rests on a light gray table, and there is a brown beetle on the left and a caterpillar on the right, near the edge of the table. The wall behind the flowers is black.
Artist
Deutsche Malerei 1622–1924
Date
1623
Type
Painting
Medium
oil on copper
Dimensions
24.13 × 19.05 cm
Collection
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Licence
Public domain, CC0

Image description

This painting shows a bouquet of various colorful flowers bursting out of a glass vase. A large, bright orange lily is at the center, surrounded by a variety of large and small flowers in red, white, blue, yellow, and pink, with a large blue iris in the top right corner. Some flowers are drooping over the top of the vase, and a few small ones have fallen to the table below. The glass vase is packed with the long green stems of the flowers, giving it a green appearance. The vase rests on a light gray table, and there is a brown beetle on the left and a caterpillar on the right, near the edge of the table. The wall behind the flowers is black.

Deutsche Malerei 1622–1924