# Basket of Cherries and Flowers

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## Artwork

- Artist: [LEDESMA, Blas de](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ledesma-blas-de-r341dad8e10ea20>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 79 x 59 cm

## Commentary

Basket of Cherries and Flowers c. 1620 Oil on canvas, 79 x 59 cm High Museum of Art, Atlanta Depicting a severely drawn, rather flat basket on a narrow ledge flanked by flowers behind it, the rigorously symmetrical composition is relieved only by soft lighting and the studied disarray of some fallen cherries. The location of the flowers, behind the front ledge in the picture, probably reflects an invention of Juan Sánchez Cotán: in a Still-Life with Hamper of Cherries and Basket of Apricots that is known in a number of copies, a head of maize rises into the composition from behind the lower ledge of a window space in the same way as Ledesma&#39;s flowers. &lt;P&gt; &lt;TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR=&#34;\#99CCCC&#34;&gt; &lt;TR VALIGN=MIDDLE&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;IMG SRC=&#34;/support/gif/listen.gif&#34; BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE&gt; Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 2 minutes\):&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A HREF=&#34;\#&#34; onClick=&#34;w=window.open \(&#39;/music1/schubert/schubert\_d431\_blumen.html&#39;, &#39;newWin&#39;, &#39;scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350&#39;\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true&#34;&gt;&lt;B&gt;Franz Schubert: Blumenlied \(Flower Song\) D 431&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;

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