Old Master Tulips

Old Dutch Master Flower Pieces

Unknown

Elias van den Broek

Gaspar Peeter Verbruggen the Younger

Georgius van Os

Hans Bollongier

(Some of these artists may be Flemish not Dutch)

Simon Luttichuys

Luttichuys was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age.

The subdued palette, consisting of interesting greys, browns and whites, and the composition with its central glass, is restful to the eye.

Interesting greys can be made by mixing colours which are opposite on the colour wheel. If the colours are incompletely mixed, with suggestions of the constituent pigments visible, then the greys become vibrant and alive. A subdued palette does not have to be a dead one. The absence of bright colours in this case allows the painting to showcase the subtle play of light on various objects: reflective metal, transparent glass, absorptive cloth.

Bollongier

Rijksmuseum

Abraham van Beyeren

detail of cloth

Guiliam Gabron

Guiliam Gabron, Antwerp, 17th century

Ernst Stuven

Festoon

Pieter Gallis (1633-1697) Dutch, Festoon

Ambrosius Bosschaert

Bosschaert 36 x 30 cm
Zoom in to the image at the Cleveland Museum of Art Website

The insects in the paintings symbolise the ephemeral nature of worldly beauty.