Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750)
Michiel van Musscher|Rachel Ruysch
1692 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings
Over a career that spanned more than six decades, Ruysch attracted royal patronage, high prices, and effusive praise for her still-life paintings. Here, she collaborated with Van Musscher, a portraitist, contributing an extravagant floral arrangement to his depiction of the painter in her studio. A poetic inscription on the album of floral studies in the foreground documents the collaboration and invites viewers to evaluate the two artists’ respective merits.
- Artist
- Michiel van Musscher|Rachel Ruysch
- Date
- 1692
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- Purchase, Adele Veronica Satkus Bequest, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund, Lila Acheson Wallace, Women and the Critical Eye, Charles and Jessie Price, and Henry and Lucy Moses Fund Inc. Gifts, Victor Wilbour Memorial Fund, Hester Diamond Gift, and funds from various donors, 2023
