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    • A Vase with Flowers, ca. 1618
    Jacob Vosmaer (Dutch, born about 1584, died 1641)
    Oil on wood

    33 1/2 x 24 5/8 in. (85.1 x 62.5 cm)
    Purchase, 1871 (71.5)

    The Delft painter Jacob Vosmaer is known only for a few flower still lifes that date from an early if not pioneering moment in the Netherlandish tradition. A very similar picture by Vosmaer in a Dutch private collection is dated 1618, which is a likely date for the present painting. At some time before the 1870s, the panel was cut down about three inches on either side and about nine inches at the top.

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  • Baetjer, Katharine. "Buying Pictures for New York: The Founding Purchase of 1871." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 39 (2004).
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  • Sonnenburg, Hubertus von with essays by Lucy Belloli, Charlotte Hale, Dorothy Mahon, and Christopher McGlinchey. "The Changing Image: Studies in Paintings Conservation." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 51, no. 3 (Winter, 1993–94).
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  • A Vase with Flowers, ca. 1618
    Jacob Vosmaer (Dutch, born about 1584, died 1641)
    Oil on wood

    33 1/2 x 24 5/8 in. (85.1 x 62.5 cm)
    Purchase, 1871 (71.5)