Peter Casteels III was the son of Peter Casteels II and Isabella Bosschaert and a student of Jan Batist Bosschaert, who may have been his uncle. From 1717 he worked in England in Richmond, near London. The bouquet is arranged in a decorated vase, the base of which is made up of putti, or erotes, that appear to be carrying the vase. They are standing over a lying lion. The flowers and blossoms are asymmetrical and randomly distributed. The dominant flower colors are red, white, blue and a pale purple. The white and light rose flowers form a diagonal, surrounded by individual red opium poppies. Two blue larkspurs (delphinium) on the left form a color accent that becomes darker towards the outside, towards the edge of the picture. At the bottom left are two rose petals on the stone plinth. Blue flowers of the auricula (Primula auricula) fall around them, as if the putti had shaken the vase too hard., Oil on wood, 59,5 x 50 cm
