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"tombstone": "Flowers in a Glass, 1606. Ambrosius Bosschaert (Dutch, 1573\u20131621). Oil on copper; framed: 60.3 x 52.8 x 6.4 cm (23 3/4 x 20 13/16 x 2 1/2 in.); unframed: 35.6 x 29.3 cm (14 x 11 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Carrie Moss Halle in memory of Salmon Portland Halle, 1960.108",
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"title": "Flowers in a Glass",
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"inscription": "Signed lower left: \"AB 1606. [AB ligated]\"",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1965",
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"opening_date": "1965-10-27T04:00:00"
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"title": "The Magic of Still Life",
"description": "The Magic of Still Life. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 4, 1986-February 1, 1987).",
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"id": 191843,
"title": "Still-Life Paintings from the Netherlands, 1550-1720",
"description": "Still-Life Paintings from the Netherlands, 1550-1720. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (June 19-September 19, 1999); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 31, 1999-January 9, 2000).",
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"description": "Carrie Moss Halle [1872-1965], Cleveland, OH, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art1",
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"1Although there are a handful of paintings by Bosschaert listed in 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century auction catalogues that appear similar to this painting in terms of description, medium, and approximate dimensions, the absence of reproductions and lack of later provenance make it difficult to determine whether any of them are indeed the CMA picture.
"
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"did_you_know": "Snails, butterflies, moths, dragonflies, and other insects make this \"still life\" come alive!",
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"description": "One of the first artists to specialize in flower painting, Ambrosius Bosschaert may have been inspired by the botanical gardens and scientific collections in his hometown of Middelburg. The flowers in this bouquet might be common today, but in the 1600s they were costly rarities. Bosschaert captured their fragile beauty with luminous colors and exquisite detail.",
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"citation": "\"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums.\" The Art Quarterly 28, no. 3 (Autumn 1965): 209-224.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 215",
"url": null
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"Year in Review.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 52, no. 9 (1965): 124-57.",
"page_number": "Referenced: cat. no. 91, p. 154, Reproduced: p. 130",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152069."
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"citation": "Stechow, Wolfgang. \"Ambrosius Bosschaert Still LIfe.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 3 (March 1966): 59-65.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 60-65; reproduced: cover",
"url": null
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"citation": "Davidson, Ruth. \"In the Museum, Paintings.\" The Magazine Antique 89 (March 1966): 416-431.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 416",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Entry by Jean Kubota Cassill. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 225; Mentioned: p. 224",
"url": null
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"citation": "Bergstr\u00f6m, Ingvar. \"Composition in Flower Pieces of 1605-1609 by Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder.\" Tableau 5, no. 2 (November-December 1982): 174-178.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 176",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Bakker, Noortje, Ingvar Bergstr\u00f6m, Guido Jansen, Simon H Levie, and Sam Segal. Masters of Middelburg: Exhibition in the Honour of Laurens J. Bol. Amsterdam: Kunsthandel K. & V. Waterman, 1984.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 33, pl. 2; Mentioned: p. 31-41",
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},
{
"citation": "Neet, Jane. \u201cMondrian\u2019s \u2018Chrysanthemum.\u2019\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 7 (September 1987): 282\u2013303.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 291, fig. 11",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159997"
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"citation": "Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 18",
"url": null
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"citation": "Chong, Alan, W T. Kloek, and Celeste Brusati. Still-life Paintings from the Netherlands, 1550-1720. Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 1999.",
"page_number": "Referenced: cat. no. 5, p. 117-119",
"url": null
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"citation": "Alpers, Svetlana. The Vexations of Art: Vela\u0301zquez and Others. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 22, fig. 14",
"url": null
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"citation": "Runia, Epco. Flowers. The Hague: Royal Picture Gallery, Mauritshuis, 2007.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 7",
"url": null
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 53 no. 01, January/February 2013",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2013-01/page/12"
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"citation": "De Clippel, Karolien and David van der Linden. \"The genesis of the Netherlandish flower piece: Jan Brueghel, Abrosius Bosschaert and Middelburg.\" Simiolus 38, no. 1/2 (2015-2016): 73-86",
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"citation": "De Clippel, Karolien and David van der Linden. \"The Genesis of the Netherlandish Flower Piece: Jan Brueghel, Ambrosius Bosschaert and Middelburg.\" Simiolus 38, no. 1/2 (2015-2016): 73-86.",
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"citation": "Bru\u0308derle-Krug, Nicole and Anna Roemers Visscher. An Engraved Ro\u0308mer for Huygens. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 2018.",
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"citation": "Segal, Sam, and Klara Alen. Dutch and Flemish Flower Pieces: Paintings, Drawings and Prints Up to the Nineteenth Century. 2020.",
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