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Balthasar van der Ast, Still Life of Fruit and Flowers
Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt · Rijksmuseum, AmsterdamView original →
Balthasar van der Ast

Still Life of Fruit and Flowers

1620

Current Collection

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Medium
panel
Dimensions
39.2 × 69.8 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-105344

This still life invites close examination of all the details and elicits marvel at the richness of God’s creation: the colourful flowers, the exotic shells, but certainly also the beautiful insects. At the same time, decay is spreading. Fruit shows the first rotten spots, leaves are eaten away by caterpillars and snails and ants drag a dead fly. The painting is thus also about impermanence.

Provenance

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

Registry history

  • 1620 — Recorded in the collection of Rijksmuseum

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