Still Life with Flowers and Animals, 1670 by Abraham Mignon
Canvas Print - 13074-MIG
Location: National Museum, Warsaw, PolandOriginal Size: 101 x 83 cm
Giclée Canvas Print | $61.06 USD
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*Max printing size: 41.3 x 34.2 in
*Max framing size: Long side up to 28"
"Still Life with Flowers and Animals" will be custom-printed for your order using the latest giclée printing technology. This technique ensures that the Canvas Print captures an exceptional level of detail, showcasing vibrant and vivid colors with remarkable clarity.
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Painting Information
Abraham Mignon’s "Flowers and Tiny Creatures – Vanitas" from around 1670 is a captivating still life, revealing more with every glance. The Dutch Golden Age painter presents a dizzying profusion of blooms that practically burst from the canvas, creating a sensory overload. Rich peonies, delicate lilies, and irises dominate the arrangement, but they’re not mere decoration – they hint at something deeper.
What truly intrigues is the barely concealed darkness woven through the piece. The flowers’ magnificence is tempered by a creeping decay. Look closely, and you’ll notice the fragile lives of small creatures scattered around the composition – birds lie lifeless, a butterfly’s wings flutter toward their end, and a snail inches across the foreground. This juxtaposition of life and death, beauty and decay, is at the heart of the Vanitas theme, a moral reminder of the fleeting nature of existence.
Yet, Mignon’s world isn’t bleak – it’s vibrant and teeming with life, a celebration of nature’s fecundity as much as a meditation on mortality. The colors are lush, with the flowers seemingly illuminated against the dark background, like characters in a drama caught in the limelight. Even the branches and foliage, climbing out of the shadowy background, feel animated. Every detail, from the glistening oranges to the tiny beetle creeping across the stone, has been rendered with astonishing precision.
This is not merely a bouquet of flowers but a dense, allegorical jungle where life blooms in the shadow of death. Mignon's brush reveals the inescapable tension between life's vibrant beauty and its inevitable decline. A delicate yet powerful visual reminder that all things fade, no matter how splendid.
Abraham Mignon
Original Size:40.5 x 35.5 cm
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany