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Still Life with Fruit and Flowers

Balthasar van der Ast1620 - 1621

Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Flowers, fruit, butterflies, spiders, grasshoppers, a hermit crab in its shell: this painting invites the viewer to marvel at God’s creation. When it was new, the painting must have made a more colourful impression than it does now. The grey tablecloth, for example, was once purplish-pink, but the layer of transparent red glaze that originally covered it has faded.

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  • Title: Still Life with Fruit and Flowers
  • Creator: Ast, Balthasar van der
  • Date Created: 1620 - 1621
  • Physical Dimensions: paneel
  • Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rijksmuseum

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