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Description: | In this image, tulips are depicted together with other flowers and fruit. A half-peeled lemon, with red and green grapes, plums, cherries, a fig, an orange, peaches and a melon, are painted with a vase holding roses, tulips, carnations, daisies and an ear of corn, on which sits a Red Admiral butterfly. In the background is shown a landscape. This image of plenty doubles as an image of nature's bounty and a reminder of the inevitability of death (Vanitas). The short-lived flowers, fruit (already spoiling in Morel's painting) and insects emphasise the transience of existence. | Subjects: | still life (fruit flowers Vanitas) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Morel, Jan Evert (Dutch painter, 1777-1808) Æ Attributed to school of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8722... | Go to resource |
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