A Basket of Flowers
Artist: Jan Brueghel the Younger (Belgian, 1601–1678)
Original Dimensions: 18 1/2" x 26 7/8"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (probably 1620s) "Jan Brueghel the Younger was part of an artistic dynasty that transformed Flemish landscape, genre, and still-life painting. Jan the Younger took over his father Jan the Elder’s studio in 1625 and learned from his practice of animating floral arrangements with insects and fallen blossoms. The butterfly perched atop the basket here adds further liveliness to the composition and may have symbolic associations with the soul and resurrection." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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