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Still-Life with Flowers
Rachel Ruysch
Hallwyl Museum
Stockholm, Sweden
A typical and probably rather early Still-Life with flowers. It is a free composition with flowers and leaves are extremely detailed against the dark background.
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- Title: Still-Life with Flowers
- Creator: Rachel Ruysch
- Creator Lifespan: 1664 - 1750
- Creator Nationality: Dutch
- Creator Gender: Female
- Creator Death Place: Amsterdam
- Creator Birth Place: The Hague
- Tags: Dutch
- Provenance: Frederik Müller & Cie., Amsterdam, Wilhelmina von Hallwyl 1906
- Physical Dimensions: w585 x h750 mm (Without frame)
- Painter: Rachel Ruysch
- Artist info: Rachel Ruysch was a unique artist – a married woman with ten children an still more successful then her husband, the dutch artist Juriaen Pool, and most other artist in Amsterdam at the time. She was a member of a cultivated family with a long line of artists. Her grandfather Pieter Poost was a landscape artist and architect, her father Frederik Ruysch was known to have been a surgeon and botanist but also a skilled amateur artist. Ruysch father was perhaps the most important person in her life, turning her interest towards flowers and encouraging her to paint. Another influence was that of her neighbour Ernst Stuven, a German painter who had studied for Willem van Aelst.
- Type: Oil on canvas
- External Link: Image DIG 4506
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