- Title
- Bouquet of Flowers on a Ledge
- Date Made
- 1619
- Medium
- Oil on copper
- Dimensions
- 11 × 9 in. (27.94 × 22.86 cm)
Framed: 15 × 14 × 1 in. (38.1 × 35.56 × 2.54 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2003.108.7
- Collecting Area
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Curatorial Notes
Displayed on a window ledge in a glass beaker, the symmetrical bouquet includes both common and prized imported flowers, such as the hybrid striped tulip. Ambrosius Bosschaert composed this impossible arrangement of flowers from individually drawn specimens that blossom at different times of the year. He carefully articulated the form and color of each flower and shell, as well as the butterflies and insects that suggest both the reality of the bouquet and its ultimate decay. This is one of only four paintings by Bosschaert to include a landscape background.
- Selected Bibliography
King, Jennifer, ed. Vera Lutter: Museum in the Camera. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2020.
- Duparc, Frederik J. Dutch and Flemish Masterworks: From the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection, a Supplement to Golden. Boston: MFA Publications, 2020.
- Walsh, Amy L. The Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carter Collection of Dutch Paintings. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019. https://archive.org/details/Carter_Collection_Dutch_Paintings (accessed May 23, 2022).
- Zumaya, Diva. The World Made Wondrous: the Dutch Collector's Cabinet and the Politics of Possession. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2023.
- Raguin, Virginia Chieffo. Stained Glass before 1700 in the Collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J.Paul Getty Museum. Vol. 1, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. London: Harvey Miller Publishers for American Corpus Vitrearum, Inc., 2024.
