Still life with flowers rachel ruysch. Rachel ruysch fruit and insects flower still life jan van huysum vase with flowers huis ten bosch house in the woods the town hall of amsterdam spain browse this content a still life of global dimensions. Antonio de peredas still life with ebony chest juan sanchez de cotan quince cabbage melon and cucumber diego velazquez the. Ruyschs maternal grandfather was the architect pieter post.
Rachel ruysch was the daughter of frederik ruysch a professor of botany. 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.
Ruysch practiced drawing from the collection of mineral and botany samples and skeletons in her fathers private museum. 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. Frederik ruysch encouraged his daughter.
Her father a professor of anatomy and botany and an amateur painter probably introduced her to the study of exotic flowers. Rachel ruysch still life with flowers in a glass vase 1716 oil on canvas 485 x 395 cm rijksmuseum amsterdam. Rachel ruyschs intricate exquisitely detailed paintings are hidden worlds of wonder and discovery.
1720 oil on canvas h 65cm w 535cm more details. Beneath lavish gorgeously decadent flower and fruit displays lie the darker side of nature as petals decay and reptilian insects emerge from the shadows into the glistening light threatening to devour them. Still life with flowers on a marble slab is a 1716 floral painting by rachel ruyschit is in the collection of the rijksmuseum.
Family portrait with flower still life in the making 1716 flowers by rachel ruysch and portraits by her husband juriaen pool. Her artistic talent was recognized early on and she became a renowned painter of floral still lifes. Held at stadtmuseum dusseldorf.