Artist: Ruysch
Date: 1700
Size: 79 x 60 cm
Museum: Mauritshuis (The Hague, Netherlands)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
This bouquet is past its best. The flowers are drooping and starting to fade. In the middle, a wilted opium poppy has been cut off. The empty space left there lends depth to the bouquet. Rachel Ruysch specialised in this sort of profuse flower still-life. She inherited her love of flowers and plants from her father, the renowned Amsterdam botanist Frederik Ruysch. Rachel had an international career as a painter and worked until a ripe old age.
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