Flowers by a Stone Vase  1786

Notes: [br]The composition and all of the motifs in this picture and its pendant, Flowers in a Stone Vase (48.187.738), enjoyed great currency in the work of Faes and his contemporaries, invariably derive from the work of Jan van Huysum, and may be traced back through him to Jan Davidsz. de Heem and other seventeenth-century painters in Holland and Flanders. It is doubtfu...