Flowers, Fruit, and Insects
by RUYSCH, Rachel, Oil on canvas, 89 x 60 cm
Nature in all its appetitive instinct slithers, licks, and chews, but discreetly around the white peaches’ scented and immaculate delicacy. Ruysch was the daughter of a professor of anatomy and botany and the granddaughter of an architect. A pupil of Willem van Aelst, she was also intrigued by Otto Marseus van Schrieck’s paintings with reptiles.