Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Tabletop

Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Tabletop

SK-A-2338

signature and date: ‘Rachel Ruysch 1716’

This bouquet features more than ten species of flowers and teems with insects. As the blossoms flower at different times, it would be rather difficult to assemble such a bouquet in real life. Ruysch was well aware of this: her extensive study of live and prepared flowers allowed her to paint these vibrant bouquets with stunning precision. During her lifetime, she was one of the most celebrated painters of floral still lifes in Europe.

M. van Eikema Hommes en A. Wallert, ‘Een evenwichtige wemeling. Over de schildertechniek van Rachel Ruysch’, Kunstschrift 44 (2000), nr. 1, pp. 39-44

painter: Rachel Ruysch (mentioned on object)

1716

olieverf op doek

height 48.5 cm x width 39.5 cm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1908

Public domain

• M. van Eikema Hommes en A. Wallert, ‘Een evenwichtige wemeling. Over de schildertechniek van Rachel Ruysch’, Kunstschrift 44 (2000), nr. 1, pp. 39-44
• R. Priem, 'The most excellent collection' of Lucretia Johanna van Witter', Simiolus 25 (1997) nr. 2/3, p. 187-188, cat. 34.
• A. Quarles van Ufford, 'Kunstenaars & liefhebbers, kunst uit de tijd van de Verlichting' , Museumtijdschrift, nr. 3 (2007), p. 20-23, p.22 (afb.)
• M.V. Eikema Hommes en A. Wallert, 'Een evenwichtige wemeling. Over de schildertechniek van Rachel Ruysch', Kunstschrift 1 (2000), p. 39-44.
• Kunstbeeld 6 (1995), p. 47.

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