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Rachel Ruysch (3 June 1664 – 12 October 1750) [1] was a Dutch still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime.
Portrait of Juriaen Pool II (....-1745), Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) and their son Jan Willem Pool: 1716: 71 cm x 62.5 cm: Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf Flowers in a glass vase, with pomegranates, on a marble balustrade: 1716: 89.5 cm x 67.5 cm: 455 (Gall. Palatina 1912) Palazzo Pitti: Florence Flowers, fruit, reptiles, and insects on the ...
It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, D.C.. Ruysch has been recorded as making pendant paintings, with one painting of flowers (called a "bloemstuk") and another of fruit ("fruitstuk"), often on a forest floor. A pendant to this painting is unknown.
Rachel Ruysch had many followers. At some point in the 18th-century, this painting was copied, and the copy is kept at the Ashmolean museum.A well-documented copyist of Ruysch's works was the Dutch painter Catharina Backer, who also owned two of Ruysch's paired large canvases, commissioned by her father-in-law, the art collector Pieter de la Court van der Voort, in 1710.
Flower paintings formed a sub-group with its own specialists, and were occasionally the speciality of the few women artists, such as Maria van Oosterwyck and Rachel Ruysch. [71] The Dutch also led the world in botanical and other scientific drawings, prints and book illustrations.
The catalog included detailed discussions of 80 paintings from various collection holders, that together give an overview of the best genres in Dutch still-life paintings, namely kitchen piece (keukenstuk), fruit still-life, (fruitstuk), floral still-life (blommetje), breakfast piece (ontbijtje), vanitas, hunting piece (jaagstuk), and show ...
Pages in category "Paintings by Rachel Ruysch" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. R.
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