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When Bosschaert was about thirty, he took up painting still life, a genre in which he became an important influence on other painters, including his brother-in-law and pupil, Balthasar van der Ast. He used a variety of blooms, painting them carefully and separately in a central arrangement. The general design of this still life is similar to a flower piece, dated 1609, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. The two paintings are probably contemporary.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

A Vase of Flowers

Date

c. 1609

Medium

oil on copper

Measurements

H 37.5 x W 26.9 cm

Accession number

WA1940.2.15

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward, 1939

Work type

Painting

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Artist or maker

Ambrosius Bosschaert the elder

1573–1621

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