Rachel ruysch flower still life 1700. She inherited her love of flowers and plants from her father the renowned amsterdam botanist frederik ruysch. Family portrait with flower still life in the making 1716 flowers by rachel ruysch and portraits by her husband juriaen pool. In the middle a wilted opium poppy has been cut off.
The image is in the public domain and tagged flowers and still lifes. She also arranged the. Beth harris moved rachel ruysch flowers still life after 1700 toledo museum of art from renaissance to modern through the 19th century to in process completed and ready to publish lynn robinson set rachel ruysch flowers still life after 1700 toledo museum of art to be due.
Rachel ruysch flower still life after 1700. Rachel ruysch specialised in this sort of profuse flower still life. It lives at the hallwyl museum in sweden.
1726 oil on canvas 756 x 606 cm toledo museum of art flower still life depicts a lush variety of different flowers from popular common european blooms to rare overseas species. Rachel ruysch the hague 3 june 1664 amsterdam 12 october 1750 was a still life painter from the northern netherlandsshe specialized in flowers inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. By rachel ruysch one of the best still life painters.
1700 by rachel ruysch. Due to a long and successful career that spanned over six decades she became the best documented woman painter of the dutch golden age being followed by jan van huysum. Basket of flowers 1711 uffizi.
There are so many blossoms that the vase cant contain them and they seem to be spilling out. Rachel ruysch 1664 1750 the greatest of all female dutch realist artists rachel ruysch specialised in flowers pictures and still life painting in the tradition of other women artists of the dutch golden age such as judith leyster 1609 60 maria van oosterwijk 1630 93 and maria sybille merian 1647. The flowers are drooping and starting to fade.
In flower still life she depicts a floral arrangement of blossoms. Posy of flowers with a red admiral butterfly on a marble ledge c. Her dad was a professor of botany and anatomy which is likely what inspired ruysch.
Still life with flowers is a northern renaissance oil on canvas painting created by rachel ruysch in 1700.