Still Life with a Snake

Image credit: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Formerly attributed to Rachel Ruysch, partly because of the false signature, this woodland scene is now attributed to van den Broeck by comparison with similar works like the 'Bird's Nest at the Foot of a Tree' in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, or the signed woodland still life in the Staatliches Museum, Schwerin. As he did in other pictures, the artist has pasted down real butterflies into his composition, a time-saving device for which, it is said, he was reproached by his contemporaries in Antwerp.

The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

Oxford

Title

Still Life with a Snake

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 62 x W 53 cm

Accession number

WA1940.2.63

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward, 1939

Work type

Painting

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