Still Life with Tulips

1623

Peter Binoit

Associated Names
Peter Binoit

Artist, German, active 17th century

This painting shows a bouquet of various colorful flowers bursting out of a glass vase. Two large red and cream tulips are at the top of the bouquet, surrounded by smaller flowers in red, blue, white, pale yellow, and pale purple. Some flowers are drooping over the top of the vase, and a few green leaves and pink buds 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 red and black beetle on the left. A small blue snail with a white shell is visible on the right, crawling along the far edge of the table. The wall behind the flowers is black.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on copper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith

  • Dimensions

    overall: 24.13 × 19.05 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
    framed: 35.88 x 31.12 cm (14 1/8 x 12 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.99.2


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Claus Kramer, Küsnacht, Switzerland, by 1971.[1] (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 13 December 2000, no. 9 [with NGA 2012.99.3]); purchased through (Richard Green, London) by Robert H. [1928-2009] and Clarice Smith, Arlington, VA; by inheritance to Clarice Smith; gift 2012 to NGA.
[1] Kramer lent the painting to a 1971 exhibition in Zurich.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1971

  • Vereinigung Zürcher Kunstfreunde, Kunsthaus, Zurich, 1971, no. 34 (with NGA 2012.99.3).

Inscriptions

lower right in monogram: PB .1623.

Wikidata ID

Q20177030

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