# Flowers

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/kessel-jan-van-i-ra48c6ed51d2b75/flowers-r8175498bf33b11>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [KESSEL, Jan van, I](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/kessel-jan-van-i-ra48c6ed51d2b75>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on panel, 52 x 37 cm

## Commentary

This flower piece, signed in full, lower right, represents tulips, roses, peonies and other flowers in a roemer. It is one of the largest flower paintings by the painter painted in the 1650s, most probably conceived as one of a pair. While Van Kessel was the grandson of Jan Brueghel the Elder and most probably trained by Jan Brueghel the Younger, the precision and clarity of his brushwork here reflects the influence of Daniel Seghers rather than the Brueghel circle.

## Related artworks

- [A Garland of Flowers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/kessel-jan-van-i-ra48c6ed51d2b75/a-garland-of-flowers-r006b39845e9b27>)
- [Birds on a Riverbank](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/kessel-jan-van-i-ra48c6ed51d2b75/birds-on-a-riverbank-rdd4f3363ce89c1>)
- [Birds](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/kessel-jan-van-i-ra48c6ed51d2b75/birds-re4dc0a66fcddd0>)
- [Butterflies and Insects](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/kessel-jan-van-i-ra48c6ed51d2b75/butterflies-and-insects-r1876c3b1b0d1c6>)
- [Harbour Scene with Fish](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/kessel-jan-van-i-ra48c6ed51d2b75/harbour-scene-with-fish-rf98e5ff958392f>)
- [Holy Family](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/kessel-jan-van-i-ra48c6ed51d2b75/holy-family-r7c3c13f033d996>)
- [Insects](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/kessel-jan-van-i-ra48c6ed51d2b75/insects-r432021065950ef>)
- [Insects](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/kessel-jan-van-i-ra48c6ed51d2b75/insects-r796144112cdd3a>)
- [Insects](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/kessel-jan-van-i-ra48c6ed51d2b75/insects-re134419ba598ce>)
- [Interior of a Kitchen with a Dog](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/kessel-jan-van-i-ra48c6ed51d2b75/interior-of-a-kitchen-with-a-dog-r29f13f67059938>)
- [Madonna with the Child and St Ildephonsus Framed with a Garland of Flowers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/kessel-jan-van-i-ra48c6ed51d2b75/madonna-with-the-child-and-st-ildephonsus-framed-with-a-garland-of-flowers-rf63d77688871c3>)
- [River Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/kessel-jan-van-i-ra48c6ed51d2b75/river-landscape-r575ea901a5d4ec>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)