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"Still Life with Flowers," Rachel Ruysch, 18th century.

I've talked about Ruysch before, but to recap quickly, she was the best-documented woman painter of her time, with an enormously successful career, getting commissions from many wealthy and influential clients. Poets wrote elegies in honor of her death in 1750, and despite the fact that she specialized in florals, her work was highly praised and fetched high prices after her passing; she even outsold Rembrandt!

The daughter of a scientist and professor of botany, Ruysch depicted plants and flowers with meticulous detail, developing her own style that straddled the line between Baroque and Rococo. Even today, she is regarded as one of the most talented still life artists of all time, bar none.

Happy Flower Friday!

From the Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm.

A Baroque painting of a bouquet of flowers, on a marble tabletop; they sit in a vase or urn that is not visible. The flowers, painstakingly done in great detail, include tulips, carnations, marigolds, dandelions in the puff stage, and others. This is evidently a work of fantasy as the flowers are not ones that would be in bloom at the same time.
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"Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase," Jan Brueghel the Elder, c. 1610-15.

Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625) was a member of the Brueghel family of artists, which produced some exceptional ones. He operated in the Renaissance and Baroque periods, and was something of a pioneer in the floral painting genre, as few artists of the period had done them before him.

There's an interesting economic take on this that I'm seeing...the Chinese vase is an indicator of the Dutch trading prowess on one hand, but on the other...the tulips are prominently featured, and the Dutch tulip mania was just starting to come to life when he painted this, becoming history's first recorded speculative bubble and a byword for any market where the prices of something outstrip their intrinsic value.

But hey, it's Flower Friday!

From the Mauritshuis, the Hague.

A Dutch Baroque painting of a bouquet of flowers, mostly tulips and roses in shades of white, peach, and pink, in a blue-and-white Chinese vase.
#Art#DutchArt#FlemishArt
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This painting by the artist Adriaen Coorte, made in 1699, shows a simple bunch of dramatically lit asparagus, on a stone shelf. ⁠
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Still life paintings of food, often called Vanitas, were a common theme in Dutch art in the 17th century and alluded to moral themes such as the brevity of life.⁠
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Asparagus were a favourite of Coorte’s and appear in 12 known paintings.

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"Winter Landscape with Snowfall near Antwerp," Lucas van Valckenborch, 1575.

Valckenborch (c. 1535 - 1597) was a Flemish painter who did mostly landscapes and market scenes, some fanciful, and who traveled around Europe seeking religious freedom.

This is very much in the typical Dutch style, with a TON of little figures doing assorted things, telling many stories. There's people playing hockey, there's a house on fire and people screaming for help, and a guy pooping on the ground. And people can be seen skating on the frozen river, maybe going across to Antwerp.

A perfect scene for today; it's snowed all day where I am.

From the Städel, Frankfurt.

A Renaissance-era landscape. Snow is falling on Antwerp, which we see in the distance, across a river. The river itself seems to be frozen; a number of figures can be seen on the ice. On the frozen near bank, in a sort of inlet, many people are cavorting on the ice, playing at curling or perhaps an early form of hockey. In the foreground is a mill, with several people huddling around a fire outside. Beyond that, a house is on fire, and a man chops a hole in the ice while people carry buckets back to the fire, and two men emerge from a nearby house with a ladder, presumedly to rescue a woman waving from a window of the burning house. And in the lower left corner, behind a tree, a man is pulling up his pants after pooping on the ground.
#Art#DutchArt#RenaissanceArt
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"The Rampoortje in Amsterdam," Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk, 1809.

Van Troostwijke (1782-1810) was an amateur painter who nevertheless became quite influential in the art world. This is one of only eight paintings by him on view.

The Raampoortje, meaning "Frame Gate," stood in the walls of Amsterdam to give access to the bleaching fields, where dyed cloth was spread on wooden frames to dry. Here, we're standing in the fields, looking back at the gate and the city itself on a cold wintry day. The juxtaposition of the snowy roofs and the smoke from the chimneys appeals to me, and I chuckle at the little man by the gate, relieving himself on the wall. That strikes me as a nod to Bruegel, who often included someone answering a call of nature in his work.

Van Troostwijk's passion for art was his undoing; he stayed out too late on a bitter cold night to finish a painting, developed a fever, and died at 28.

From the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

A Realist cityscape from 1809. We are standing outside Amsterdam in what used to be bleaching fields (where dyed cloth was set out on frames to dry) looking toward the city on a snowy winter day. We see the Rammpoortje, a gate in the city walls, and beyond that the roofs and buildings of Amsterdam, chimney belching smoke and roofs covered in snow. Snow also lies on the ground and atop the wall. Beside the gate, a man stands with his back to us, relieving himself against the wall.
#Art#DutchArt#Amsterdam
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