So strongly drawn was the influential French painter Edouard Manet in the early 1880s ... admiring the masterfully painted flowers and crystal vase found in the 1883 canvas “Vase of White ...

After Manet’s death, in 1883, the artist Edmond Bazire visited his studio and found two there, including one that was “an explosion of freshness,” he said, “quivering in the crystal vase ...

“Van Gogh, Manet, and Matisse: The Art of the Flower” opens Saturday at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. “Floral still lifes are not only beautiful, they are profound,” said Mitchell ...