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[edit]Rachel Ruysch: Still-Life with Flower Bouquet and Plums | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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artist QS:P170,Q234385 |
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Still-Life with Bouquet of Flowers and Plums |
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Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | floral painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 1704 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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height: 92 cm (36.2 in); width: 70 cm (27.5 in) dimensions QS:P2048,92U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,70U174728 |
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institution QS:P195,Q377500 |
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Source/Photographer | Web Gallery of Art |
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JPEG file comment | RUYSCH, Rachel
(b. 1664, Amsterdam, d. 1750, Amsterdam) Still-Life with Bouquet of Flowers and Plums - Oil on canvas, 92 x 70 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels Unlike that of most 17th and 18th century female artists, Rachel Ruysch's work has never sunk into obscurity. She also enjoyed public recognition of her talent during her lifetime: in 1701, three years before painting this particularly charming bouquet, she was the first woman to be admitted to the Confrerie Pictura in The Hague, and in 1708 Johann Wilhelm, the Elector of the Palatinate, appointed her to the position of court painter. The artist's specialities were compositions with fruit, flowers and woodlands. Within this genre she was never a real innovator, but she perfectly assimilated the work of others, equalling them in terms of her painting technique. At least for certain partial aspects of flower painting she sought her own solutions, thereby imposing her own stamp on her creations. During the final decade of the 17th century we can observe the influence in particular of her teacher, Willem van Aelst, and that of Simon Pietersz. Verelst. From the beginning of the 18th century she was inspired by Jan Davidsz. de Heem and Abraham Mignon. The use of a dark background for a bouquet is a tried and tested way of bringing colours and shapes to their own. The fact that very few flowers in the bouquet cross also shows that the painter wished to present the various species in a way that made them clearly recognisable. This almost scientific trait is certainly due, in Ruysch's case, to her father's position as a professor of botany. Typical for this period is the adding of insects and fruit of every kind, here a branch of plums. This fruit with its characteristic matt, bluish tint, which is so difficult to reproduce, appears to have been chosen by painters precisely in order to demonstrate their technical skill. One striking feature of this sumptuous bouquet is the S-shapes in the composition, with which Ruysch seeks a more natural-looking structure in contrast to the strong diagonals found in her earlier work. Rachel Ruysch's personality also speaks to our imagination: although building a professional career was something unusual for a woman at that time, she was simultaneously a "normal" woman of her time, as she bore ten children.
Author: RUYSCH, Rachel Title: Still-Life with Bouquet of Flowers and Plums Time-line: 1701-1750 School: Dutch Form: painting Type: still-life |
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