An allegorical portrait of an artist, probably Rachel Ruysch, seated full-length, in a white dress with a blue sash, holding a paint brush before an easel, a draped table with a palette, books and sculpture at her side, an angel blowing a horn with a putto holding a laurel wreath above

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Follower of Michiel van Musscher
An allegorical portrait of an artist, probably Rachel Ruysch, seated full-length, in a white dress with a blue sash, holding a paint brush before an easel, a draped table with a palette, books and sculpture at her side, an angel blowing a horn with a putto holding a laurel wreath above
oil on canvas
47½ x 38½ in. (120.8 x 97.8 cm.)

Lot Essay

The prototype by Michiel van Musscher is in the Raleigh Museum, North Carolina (see A. Wheelock, catalogue of the exhibition From Bottany to Bouquets, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999, pp.72/3, fig.64)

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