Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Tabletop

Today is the last day of our special month with the Rijksmuseum's collection. We hope you enjoyed it!  :)

So, time for Rachel Ruysch!

Rachel Ruysch was a still life painter from the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style. She had a very good understanding of drawing and the techniques of earlier traditions. Her father was a professor of anatomy and botany, and had a vast collection of animal skeletons and mineral and botany samples that Rachel used to practice her drawing skills. Her works are playful compositions of brilliant colors. She paid extensive attention to all details in her work. Each petal was created painstakingly with delicate brushwork. Ruysch produced hundreds of paintings, more than 250 of which have been documented or are attributed to her. She enjoyed great fame and reputation in her lifetime. When she died at age 86, eleven poets paid her their respects with poems about her.

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P.S. Rachel Ruysch was a fantastic and an accomplished artist who deserves to be in the spotlight, just like other women artists who were erased from Art History. Check out our series on Women Artists that will bring you closer to both the famous and obscure female artists who deserve to be remembered!