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In the 17th century the Dutch were very interested in flowers and gardening, so paintings that highlighted the beauty of nature were highly valued. This helped to build and maintain Ruysch's clientele throughout her career. [7] In her lifetime her paintings were sold for prices as high as 750–1200 guilders.
Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, [1] during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for Dutch independence. The new Dutch Republic was the most prosperous nation in Europe and led European trade, science, and art.
Department of Paintings of the Louvre: INV 1553 66 Still Life with Globe, Books, Sculpture, and Other Objects: Jan van der Heyden: 1670 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna: 67 Vase of Flowers: Simon Pietersz Verelst: 1670 Cleveland Museum of Art: 68 Flowers in a Glass Vase: Dirck de Bray: 1671 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: M.2009.106.4 69 Still ...
These latter paintings are closely related to images of the hunt, which came into fashion in Flemish painting during the 17th century. Peter Paul Rubens, The Tiger, Leopard and Lion Hunt, c. 1617–1618. Musée des Beaux Arts, Rennes. This painting is typical of Rubens's "exotic" hunts painted between about 1615 and 1625.
Unlike her husband, brothers and sister, Alida acquired a certain reputation painting under her own name, principally due to her botanical images. In Hoorn a number of the Withoos children were active as artists of flowers, birds, butterflies and insects. In inventories, such images were regularly called "Withoosjes". [3]
He collected the works of flower artists, both by his contemporaries and the great 17th-century Dutch still life painters Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Abraham Mignon, Rachel Ruysch and Jan van Huysum. [ 3 ] Philippe-Jacques van Bree , Interior of the Studio of Van Dael and his students at the Sorbonne , 1816
Although landscape paintings were popular in seventeenth-century Dutch art, the depiction of a specific industry and its connection with a particular place was relatively rare at the time. [1] Ruisdael was the one to popularize the painting of such landscape views of Haarlem, including the industry that the town was known for. [1]
Still Life with Fruit, Flowers, Glasses and Lobster. 1660s. Oil on canvas. 87,5 x 72,5 cm. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Oil on canvas. 87,5 x 72,5 cm. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. A number of de Heems, of whom Jan Davidsz. was the most distinguished, painted works in similar styles, that are often hard to distinguish.