A Vase of Flowers
Margareta Haverman
$47.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
A Vase of Flowers, painted in 1716 by Margareta Haverman, stands as a rare and extraordinary testament to a woman's mastery within the male-dominated world of Dutch and Flemish still-life painting. Haverman was a pupil of the celebrated Jan van Huysum, and this luminous composition — her only known signed and dated work — secured her admission to the French Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, a distinction virtually unheard of for women of her era.
Rendered in oil on wood panel, the painting presents an exuberant arrangement of tulips, roses, poppies, and morning glories cascading from a sculpted stone urn. Haverman's command of light and texture is breathtaking: dewdrops cling to petals, insects perch among the blooms, and each flower is rendered with botanical precision. Such details carried symbolic weight — blooms at different stages of life alluded to the passage of time and the transience of beauty, a hallmark of the vanitas tradition.
This museum-quality stretched canvas reproduction captures every luminous detail of Haverman's masterwork, printed on premium matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a sturdy 0.75-inch wooden frame with a classic gallery wrap finish. Ready to hang and crafted to museum standards, it brings a singular piece of art history into your home.
| Artist | Margareta Haverman |
| Year | 1716 |
| Medium | Oil on wood |
| Dimensions | 31 1/4 x 23 3/4 in. (79.4 x 60.3 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Baroque |
| Available sizes | |
| Small | 20 × 25 cm (8″ × 10″) |
| Medium | 51 × 76 cm (20″ × 30″) |
| Large | 102 × 152 cm (40″ × 60″) |
| All sizes include a 0.75" gallery wrap. Ready to hang — no framing required. | |
