A festoon of meticulously rendered fruits and flowers suspended before a stone niche fills the center of this composition. Delicate blue bows decorate the spikes holding the arrangement and various insects, as well as a snail, appear throughout. Although the still life has been represented since ancient Roman times, it was often incorporated into larger compositions as seen in Cornelis van Haarlem’s Venus and Adonis also on view in this wing. In the course of the seventeenth century, it emerged as an independent art form, and in the Netherlands, where there was a strong interest in botany, floral still life, in particular, became extremely popular. The opulent splendor of this work distinguishes Mignon as one of the masters of this genre. The conservation treatment of the frame for the Abraham Mignon painting was generously funded by the Richard C. von Hess Foundation.