[Flowers Arranged in a Glass Vase]
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer|Nicolas de Poilly
about 1659
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Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Overall: 16 1/8 x 12 1/8 x 3/16 in. (41 x 30.8 x 0.5 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number
20.61.2(17a-20b)
Tags
FlowersLeavesVases
About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer|Nicolas de Poilly · 1636–1699
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (1636-1699) was a Franco-Flemish painter who became the most distinguished and formative still life and flower painter of the French Baroque period. Born in Lille, he trained in Antwerp where he absorbed the techniques of Flemish masters before moving to Paris by 1650. Patronized by Charles Le Brun, Louis XIV's Minister of Arts, Monnoyer worked extensively on decorative pain...