[Flowers Arranged in a Glass Vase]
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer|de Poilly
[about 1659]
![[Flowers Arranged in a Glass Vase] by Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer|de Poilly](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/dp/thumb/flowers-arranged-in-a-glass-vase-380624.webp)
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 12 3/8 × 8 7/8 in. (31.4 × 22.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.600.87
Tags
FlowersLeavesVases
About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer|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...