# Still-Life with Flowers, Artichokes and Fruit [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PONCE, Antonio]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 108 x 167 cm ## Commentary Still-Life with Flowers, Artichokes and Fruit c. 1660 Oil on canvas, 108 x 167 cm Private collection In this painting Ponce depicts a copious bouquet of cut flowers in a two-handled vase of Talavera pottery that rests on a smooth stone ledge, laden with leafy branches of apples and pears, and some artichokes. The horizontal format and neutral, light ochre background tone gives a greater sense of atmospheric, ambient space than in other works by the artist, a sense that is, in turn, articulated by two butterflies that fly around the blooms. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 7 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/19\_cent/tchaikovsky\_nutcracker\_waltz.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, ballet suite, op. 71, Waltz of the Flowers</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [Still-Life in the Kitchen]() - [Still-Life of Apples, Pears and Figs in a Wicker Basket on a Stone Ledge]() - [Still-Life of Peaches and Grapes on a Stone Ledge]() - [Still-Life]() - [Vase of Flowers]() - [Vase of Flowers]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()