Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750)

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Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750)

A forest floor still life with an opium poppy, carnations, cornflowers, fungi, a fly, a grasshopper and a dragon-fly, a small copper, a peacock, a painted lady, a blue and a Queen of Spain fritillary on a mossy bank

signed and dated: Rachel Ruysch/1683
64 x 51.6 cm

Provenance

(possibly) Anon. Sale, Amsterdam, 21 Aug. 1799, lot 112 (fl. 33,= to v.d.Schey)
(possibly) Karasz-Apraxim; Sale, Berlin, 22 Feb. 1892, lot 442
R. Peltzer; Sale, Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 26-27 May 1914, lot 167 (sold fl. 440)
Mrs. J.M. Tydeman-Verloren van Themaat, Ginneken
thence by descent

Literature

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné etc., X, 1928, p.318, no. 54
W. Stechow in U. Thieme and F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon des bildenden Künstler, vol. XXIX, p. 244
Colonel M.H. Grant, Rachel Ruysch 1664-1750, 1956, p. 36, no.12

Exhibited

Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Noord-Brabantsch Kunstbezit, 15 August-15 September 1938, no. 44 (wrongly catalogued as a bouquet of flowers in a vase)
Tilburg, Paleis-Raadhuis, Oude Kunst in Brabants bezit, 31 July-19 September 1948, no. 57

Lot Essay

To be compared with the picture in the City Museum and Art Galleries, Glasgow (Grant, op.cit, no. 22)

See colour illustration

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