Abraham van Beyeren

Flower Still Life with a Timepiece

548 detail signatuur
548 achterzijde
548 ingelijst
548 voorzijde
548 voorzijde

Abraham van Beyeren
Flower Still Life with a Timepiece

Not on view

Abraham van Beijeren painted this striking flower still life with swift movements. He set down the reflection of the window in the vase with just a couple of brushstrokes on the canvas. Despite the rapid execution, all the flowers are recognisable: tulips, roses and carnations. But these flowers don’t all bloom at the same time, which means that this bouquet could never actually have existed.

Van Beijeren’s painting style wasn’t particularly popular for flower still lifes. His contemporaries preferred smoothly painted bouquets, for which they were also prepared to pay more. Perhaps this explains Van Beijeren’s limited financial success: his name regularly appears in the archives as a debtor.

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Abraham van Beyeren
Flower Still Life with a Timepiece

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Details

General information
Abraham van Beyeren (The Hague 1620/1621 - 1690 Overschie)
Flower Still Life with a Timepiece
painting
548
Material and technical details
oil
canvas
80 x 69 cm
Inscriptions
lower centre, on the edge of the table: AVB f
AVB in ligature

Provenance

Purchased, 1889