Still Life with Fruit and Flowers 1620
by Balthasar van der Ast
Flowers, fruit, butterflies, spiders, grasshoppers, a hermit crab in its shell: this painting invites the viewer to marvel at God’s creation. When it was new, the painting must have made a more colourful impression than it does now. The grey tablecloth, for example, was once purplish-pink, but the layer of transparent red glaze that originally covered it has faded.
- Credit:
- Courtesy of Rijksmuseum
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