Floral Still Life
1686
45 1/8 x 34 3/8 in. (114.6 x 87.3 cm)
Rachel Ruysch
Netherlands
(1664-1665 - 1750)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Acquired with contributions made in memory of Brenda Rowntree by her friends, through the Acquisition Fund of the Women's Council, and the Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1982.9
Location: Currently on view
Provenance
Fritz Franz Ittenbach, Cologne?; his sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, November 8, 1898, lot 100; M. Kellner, Vienna; his sale, Rudolf Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, December 3, 1929, lot 31; sale, Van Marle & Bignell, The Hague (dealers), March 1974, lot 367A; sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, June 27, 1974, lot 202; sale, Christie's, London, December 1, 1978, lot 81, as "the Property of a Gentleman"; Gallery P. de Boer, Amsterdam (dealers); purchased from them by the Gallery in 1982
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Bibliography
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Article Author: Berardi, Marianne.
Article Scope: Article and reproduction.
Susan Dodge Peters, ed.
Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection.
New York, New York: Memorial Art Gallery in association with Hudson Hills Press, 1988.
Page Number: 94-95
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Memorial Art Gallery.
Gallery Notes.
Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995.
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Docent Newsletter.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery
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Article Author: Berardi, Marianne.
Article Title: The Nature Pieces of Rachel Ruysch.
Article Scope: Article and reproduction.
Porticus.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery
Volume Number: 10/11
Issue Date: 1987/1988.
Page Number: 2-15
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Article Scope: Entry and reproduction.
Richard Leppert.
Art and the Committed Eye.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996.
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Article Scope: Article and reproduction.
Victoria Jane Ream.
Art in Bloom: A New Art Form Combining Painting and Sculpture with Floral Design.
Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Equity, 1997.
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Article Scope: Mention.
Elizabeth Brayer.
Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
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Grant Holcomb, III, ed.
Voices in the Gallery: Writers on Art.
Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001.
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Article Author: Holcomb, Grant.
Article Title: Experiencing Art.
Article Scope: Article and reproduction.
MAGazine.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery
Issue Date: May-June 1996.
Page Number: 2,3
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Article Scope: Article and reproduction.
Selected Recent Acquisitions.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1982.
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Article Scope: Entry and reproduction.
Peter C. Sutton.
A Guide to Dutch Art in America .
Washington D.C.: Netherlands-American Amity Trust ; Grand Rapids : Wm. B. Erdmans, 1986.
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Article Scope: Entry and reproduction.
In Medusa's Gaze: Still Life Paintings from Upstate New York Museums.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1991.
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Article Scope: Entry and reproduction.
Sam Segal.
A Flowery Past: A Survey of Dutch and Flemish Flower Painting from 1600 until the Present.
Amsterdam: Gallery P. de Boer, 1982.
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Article Scope: Entry.
Colonel M. H. Grant.
Rachel Ruysch: 1664-1750.
Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, Publishers, Ltd., 1956.
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Article Scope: Article and reproduction.
Sam Segal.
Jan Davidsz de Heem en Zijn Kring.
's-Gravenhage: Sdu Uitgeverij, 1991.
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Article Scope: Reproduction only.
Everson Museum of Art Bulletin.
Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art
Issue Date: Spring 1992.
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Women Artists at the Memorial Art Gallery.
Rochester, NY: Susan B. Anthony Center, University of Rochester, 2017.
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Article Author: Bishoff, Sheridan.
Article Title: Imagined Nature.
Article Scope: Discussion and reproduction.
Landscape Studies at Syracuse University.
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University, 2021.
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