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DiaporamaA Vase of Flowers
1716
79.0 x 60.0 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art
margareta haverman (1693 – 1723)
Discover Margaretha Haverman's exquisite 18th-century flower paintings – delicate beauty & skillful technique, showcasing Dutch botanical art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (new york, United States of America)
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Although only two of her works are known to survive today, Haverman was celebrated at a young age for her gifts as a flower painter. She studied with the notoriously secretive flower painter Jan van Huysum and later gained admission to the French Royal Academy in Paris. The artist’s skill is on full display in this magnificent arrangement of flowers and fruit, in which she used innovative pigments such as Prussian blue. Over time, the organic yellow lake pigment has faded, resulting in the present blue appearance of the leaves. Haverman’s confident signature appears as though incised in the plinth supporting the bouquet.
About this artwork
- Title: A Vase of Flowers
- Artist: margareta haverman
- Year: 1716
- Original dimensions: 79.0 x 60.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Where to see it: Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Main color: Phthalo Green
- Color intensity: Monochromatic
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