Rachel Ruysch’s Still-Lifes

flower still-life

C. 1726, Oil on canvas, 75.6 x 60.6 cm.   Toledo Museum of Art.

Fruit and insects

1711, Oil on wood, 44 x 60 cm.   Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

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