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His precise drawing and fluid brushwork enable him to evoke different subtle textures – delicate tendrils and curling petals, spiky twigs, delicate butterfly wings. Transparent raindrops trickle down leaves and the yolk oozes from one of the tiny eggs in the bird’s nest.
The flowers in the picture are not the individual exotic specimens shown by artists a hundred years earlier. Tulips, narcissi, poppies, roses, stocks and peonies had become easily available. Van Brussel has massed them together in a delightful disorder, placing his bouquet against the background of a garden with classical statues, in the French Rococo style that had become popular in the Netherlands.
Title
Flowers in a Vase
Date
1792
Medium
Oil on mahogany
Measurements
H 81.1 x W 58.9 cm
Accession number
NG3225
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by W.W. Aston, 1919
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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