An early painting in this genre by Hans Memling with a Christ monogram and a namesake carpet was done on the reverse of his Portrait of a Young Man Praying. Oil-on-copper, monogrammed paintings in this genre were made by the Bosschaert family. An album cover by Peter Saville added small color blocks to a painting in this genre by Henri Fantin-Latour. A pupil of Maria Sibylla Merian used real butterfly wings in “impossible” paintings in this genre; that artist was the first woman to join the Confrerie Pictura of The Hague. It’s not landscapes, but a Brueghel family member nicknamed for paintings in this genre collaborated with Peter Paul Rubens. Rachel Ruysch worked in this genre, which a later artist painted for a studio shared with Paul Gauguin. For 10 points, the Yellow House was decorated with paintings in what genre by Vincent van Gogh? ■END■
ANSWER: floral still lifes [or still lifes of flowers; or still lifes of sunflowers; prompt on still lifes by asking “of what objects?”; prompt on vanitas by asking “what are the primary objects depicted in the paintings?”; prompt on plants or botanical art or equivalents]
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