Rijksmuseum

Still Life of Fruit and Flowers

Date

1620

Medium

panel, oil paint (paint)

Institution

Rijksmuseum

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.

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