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Flowers in a Chinese Vase (Madrid)

Flowers in a Chinese Vase (Madrid)

Object type Painting
Genre Flower Still-Life and Nature Study
Date 1609-1613
Dimensions 47 x 35 cm
Support Panel
Medium Oil
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 1979, #207
Ertz 2008-10, #441
Location Madrid, Spain
Collection Museo del Prado
Accession numbers inv. #1424
Tags Insects, Vase, Flowers
External resources Museo del Prado
Hairs 1965, pp. 38 & 365
Diaz Padron, vol.1, p.296 as "taller de Jan Brueghel de Velours"
Ertz 1979, Cat.207
Brenninkmeijer-de Rooij 1996, pp. 64, 81, fig. 63
Ertz 2008-10, Cat.441
Winkelmann- Rhein 1968, pp.38
Currie & Allart 2012, pp. 263
Brussels 1980, cat. #129
1849 Madrid Museo del Prado, inv. #1483 (as "Jan Brueghels the Elder")
E.A. Honig
August 3, 2013

A close copy of this series of flowers in a Wanli vase, possibly by Jan Brueghel the Younger (Copper, 48 x 35 cm), is in Madrid, Museo del Prado, #1421. There are a number of further copies in private collections.

Ashley Jerbic
April 25, 2014

Brueghel usually painted his flowers directly from nature, without using drawings or sketches.
There are hardly any preserved flower sketches done by him, while landscape drawings remain in infinite supply.
He traveled to Brussels frequently, to study and paint rare flowers in the Archduke’s garden.