Still Life with Flowers in a Glass Vase

Today is our last day of our special feature of the Rijksmuseum. We hope you enjoyed our selection from their collection as much as we have!  : )  At the same time, given that March is Women's History Month, today we want to feature this amazing painting by a woman artist, Rachel Ruysch. 

Rachel Ruysch was the daughter of Frederik Ruysch, a professor of botany. Her artistic talent was recognized early on and she became a renowned painter of floral still lifes. Even though she bore ten children, she nevertheless managed to pursue a professional career as an artist. Her pictures were admired at the courts in The Hague and Germany, and she was appointed court painter to the Elector Palatine.

Rachel is one of the heroines of our Women Artists Notebook, check it out here.  : )

P.S. Here's another of Ruysch's beautiful flowers compositions and here you can read more about the groundbreaking Slavery exhibition at the Rijksmuseum.