Basket of Flowers — Balthasar van der Ast

Balthasar van der Ast

Basket of Flowers

c. 1622

Dating
Approximate
Held at
National Gallery of Art
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
painted surface: 17.8 x 23.5 cm (7 x 9 1/4 in.) overall (with additions): 18.4 x 24.4 cm (7 1/4 x 9 5/8 in.) framed: 38.4 x 43.8 x 3.2 cm (15 1/8 x 17 1/4 x 1 1/4 in.)
Collection no.
1992.51.2
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
NGA Open Access — public domainLicense details

Balthasar van der Ast. Basket of Flowers. National Gallery of Art. NGA Open Access — public domain. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

About this artwork

Official collection metadata; attribution follows named catalogue, not an independent authenticity determination. Holdings are not ownership or current display. Museum accessioned painting; no museum-highlight designation or current-display claim. Source Wikidata creator identity matched exactly. Dataset textual dates checked against numeric search dates. Full provenance, inscriptions, terms and catalogue text preserved in the separate research staging record. Attribution: primary Collection credit: Collection of Mrs. Paul Mellon.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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