Still-Life of Flowers
by RUYSCH, Rachel, Oil on canvas, 89 x 71 cm
This painting depicts a still-life of roses, tulips, a sunflower and other flowers in a glass vase with a bee, butterfly and other insects upon a marble ledge. It epitomises the final and grandest stage of Dutch flower-painting of the Golden Age, of which Rachel Ruysch was one of the finest protagonists.