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BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder: Bouquet in a Clay Vase

🖼 Bouquet in a Clay Vase, 1599-1607
Oil on wood
51 × 40 cm
Vienna, Austria

Delicate flowers overflow a modest clay vessel, rendered in luminous detail against dark ground. Brueghel's meticulous oil technique captures tulips and carnations with scientific precision, establishing the floral still life as a major Flemish genre and reflecting seventeenth-century fascination with exotic blooms.

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