Rachel Ruysch

Still life of flowers, with butterflies, insects, a lizard and toads, beside a pool

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Property from a European Private Collection

Rachel Ruysch

The Hague 1664 - 1750 Amsterdam

Still life of flowers, with butterflies, insects, a lizard and toads, beside a pool

signed and dated lower left: Rachel Ruysch / 1687

oil on canvas

unframed: 91 x 61.5 cm.; 35 ⅞ x 24 ¼ in.

framed: 104 x 71.5 cm.; 40 ⅞ x 28 ⅛ in.

Please note that in the Grant monograph of 1956 (see Literature), the painting is listed with dimensions of 91.5 x 71.2 cm., and is illustrated in a wider format, which includes evidently later additions on each side of the canvas. These were removed subsequent to the publication (probably in the late 1950s at the time the parents of the current owner acquired the painting), restoring the work to its original format.

With M. Bernard, London;
With Duits, London;
With Galerie Sankt Lucas, The Hague;
H.N.J.C. van Meerten, The Hague, by 1956;
Acquired by the parents of the present owner in The Hague, 1958;
Thence by descent.

M.H. Grant, Rachel Ruysch 1664-1750, Leigh-on-Sea 1956, p. 27, cat. no. 25, reproduced pl. 13 (where listed with dimensions of 91.5 x 71.2 cm.);

M. Berardi, Science into art: Rachel Ruysch's early development as a still-life painter, doctoral diss., University of Pittsburgh 1998, pp. 356-58, reproduced p. 477, plate 48.