Image scanned from slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

A Flower Piece

Artist Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (French, 1636 - 1699)

Date17th century

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall, Support: 43 1/2 x 34 1/2 in. (110.5 x 87.6 cm)
Overall, Frame: 51 x 41 1/2 in. (129.5 x 105.4 cm)

ClassificationsEuropean art

Credit LineThe Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA

Object number64.4.1

Terms

Flowers

Collections

European Art before 1945

On View

On view

DescriptionThis is a large oil on canvas painting. Behind a stone wall and ledge, a flower arrangement bursts with gorgeous blossoms in reds, pale pink, blues, and variant colors. In the foreground are grapes, plums and pomegranates; one is split open to reveal its red seeds. The bouquet is composed of large flowers, which spill and dangle over the stone wall.

Label TextJean-Baptiste Monnoyer French, 1636–1699 A Flower Piece Oil on canvas Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer centered his early career in Paris, where he specialized in lavish floral paintings that perfectly captured the sumptuous elegance of the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV. This towering mass of blooms is typical of Monnoyer’s richly decorative art and show the exuberance that his French and later English patrons highly prized. Museum purchase 64.4.1