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Vase with flowers on the terrace

Part of the collection: Painting and drawing

Popularization note

Painting from the collection of the Potocki family, former owners of the Łańcut castle; it depicts an ornamental vase full of flowers (roses, tulips, peonies, branches of decorative bushes) arranged in such a way that they flow down the right side of the vase. The vase stands on the terrace, on a pedestal decorated with a cone-shaped pinnacle. Behind the pedestal, in the background, a deciduous tree, in front of the pedestal two guinea-fowls – one standing, the other sitting with the paws curled. On the left side of the canvas, a fragment of a column (without capitals) overgrown with vines. Next to it, there is a fountain the core of which is the figure of a cupid on a dolphin. The cupid holds in his hands a horn from which water gushes into a bowl below. The top of the painting shows a blue and celadon sky. The painting dates from the end of the 18th century, unfortunately the author is unknown. Flowers as a subject in painting have been popular since Antiquity. In the Middle Ages they also used to appear in paintings, but they usually had a symbolic function, accompanying mainly religious scenes. In the 15th and 16th centuries, they began to be depicted as the main subject of a painting and they continue to play this role in painting today. There was even a special trend in painting to depict various bouquets of flowers in interiors, spread mainly in the Western European painting. The painting kept in Łańcut is in a way part of this trend, additionally enriched with architecture and birds. The painting is framed in a wooden, gilded channel frame decorated with an interwoven leafy ribbon and is exhibited in the eastern corridor on the ground floor of the castle.

Information about the object

Information about this object

Author / creator

unknown

Dimensions

height: 101 cm, width: 140 cm

Object type

Painting and drawing

Technique

oil

Material

wood, canvas

Origin / acquisition method

decyzja administracyjna

Creation time / dating

18th century

Creation / finding place

powstanie: unknown

Owner

Castle Museum in Łańcut

Identification number

S.771MŁ

Location / status

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