Still-Life with Fruits, Shells and Insects
Oil On Canvas
WallArt
Baroque
1620
Early Modern
75.0 x 104.0 cm
Hermitage Museum
Balthasar van der Ast (1593 – 1657)
Balthasar van der Ast (1593-1657) was a Dutch Golden Age painter renowned for exquisite still lifes of flowers, fruit & pioneering shell paintings. Explore his detailed works featuring insects and lizards – a key figure in 17th-century art!
Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
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About this artwork
- Title: Still-Life with Fruits, Shells and Insects
- Artist: Balthasar van der Ast
- Year: 1620
- Original dimensions: 75.0 x 104.0 cm
- Format: Landscape
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Where to see it: Hermitage Museum
- Movement: Baroque
- Medium type: WallArt
- Corpus context: symbolism of abundance and decay , mastery of detailed natural elements