The Jesuit Daniel Seghers (1590-1661) from Antwerp specialised in painting flower arrangements. He was a pupil of Jan Brueghel the Elder, himself a renowned painter of flowers and the inventor of the floral wreath around a stone cartouche. In the cartouche, we often see an image of saints, usually executed by other painters. Seghers further elaborates this motif. The floral garlands are often composed of several bouquets of mainly mary flowers, put together regardless of their time of flowering. Seghers' oeuvre is characterised by careful observation, delicate brushwork and refined colour harmonies.
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Daniël Seghers
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Erasmus II Quellinus
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| Title | Floral Wreath with the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary |
| Date | ca. 1640 - ca. 1645 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Location | Antwerp TGN |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1957-AI |
| Acquisition credit |
gift
The Friends of the Museum Ghent 1957 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1957-AI |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/2449/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300015638 still lifes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11F
the Virgin Mary
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25G41(LILY) flowers: lily Iconclass 25G41(ROSE) flowers: rose Iconclass 25G4111 garland, wreath Iconclass 73 New Testament Iconclass 41E1 still life of related objects Iconclass 73A (scenes from the life of) John the Baptist and Mary Iconclass 73A2352 (immaculate) conception of Mary represented symbolically Iconclass |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
| De samenwerking van Daniël Seghers en Erasmus II Quellinus / Jean-Pierre De Bruyn. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 305-306, nr. 18) |
| Voorstellingen van de Immaculata Conceptio in het oeuvre van Erasmus II Quellinus / Jean-Pierre De Bruyn. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 291) |
| Erasmus II Quellinus (1607-1678) : De schilderijen met catalogue raisonné / Jean-Pierre De Bruyn. - Freren : Luca Verlag, 1988 (p. 56, 149, nr. 75 (ill.)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. I, p. 150-151 (ill.)) |
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