Rachel Ruysch

  BOSTON, MASS.- In the 17th century, global commerce fueled the economy of the Netherlands and Flanders and sparked an artistic boom. Merchants sailed from Amsterdam, Antwerp and other ports across seas and oceans, joining trade networks that stretched from Asia to the Americas and Africa. This unprecedented movement of goods, ideas and people, both free and enslaved, gave rise to what some have called the first age of globalization. On November 20, 2021, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, opened a suite of seven newly... [Lire la suite]

Lot 13. Rachel Ruysch (The Hague 1664 - 1750 Amsterdam), Still life of a tulip and other flowers with a melon upon a ledge, signed, inscribed and dated lower right: R. Ruysch Æ 83/ 1748, oil on oak panel, 16 x 17.5 cm. 6¼ x 6⅞ in. Lot sold: 390,100 GBP (Estimate: 100,000 - 150,000 GBP). (C) 2021 Sotheby's Property from the Collection formed by the late Mr and Mrs Barge-Dreesmann. Provenance: Private European collection; With David Koetser Gallery, Zürich; ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 32. Rachel Ruysch (The Hague 1664 - 1750 Amsterdam), Still life with flowers in a vase on a ledge with a dragonfly, caterpillar, and butterfly, signed and dated lower left: Rachel Ruysch 1698, oil on canvas, 19 by 15 ¾ in.; 48.3 by 40 cm. Estimate: 1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's. Provenance: Pieter Locquet, Amsterdam;His deceased sale, Amsterdam, Van der Schley a.o., 22 September 1783, lot 312 (for fl. 200);There acquired by Van der Schley,... [Lire la suite]

Installation view Kunstmuseum Basel | Hauptbau Künstler, Beteiligte: Bilderlust. Louise Bachofen-Burckhardt - Sammeln und Stiften in Basel. Photo: Julian Salinas BASEL.- A hundred years after the death of Louise Bachofen-Burckhardt (1845–1920), the Kunstmuseum pays homage to its most important patron in the early twentieth century. The exhibition in the main building’s ground floor galleries presents many of the outstanding works that Bachofen-Burckhardt secured for the museum.“It is my ardent hope that I will yet be... [Lire la suite]

Lavinia Fontana, Portrait of a Noblewoman, ca. 1580; Oil on canvas, 45 1/4 x 35 1/4 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gift of Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay; Funding for the frame generously provided by the Texas State Committee. © 2019 national museum of women in the arts.   WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents a major reinstallation of its collection galleries with an expansive array of paintings, photographs and sculptures, including recent acquisitions, rarely... [Lire la suite]

Rachel Ruysch (The Hague 1664 - 1750 Amsterdam), Still life of flowers with a nosegay of roses, marigolds, larkspur, a bumblebee and other insects. signed and dated on the ledge, lower right: Rachel Ruysch / 1695; oil on canvas;12 5/8  by 10 1/8  in.; 32 by 25.8 cm. Estimate 400,000 — 600,000 USD (355,733 - 533,599 EUR). Photo Sotheby's. Provenance: Collection of H.R.H. Princess Arthur of Connaught (1891-1959), Duchess of Fife, London (her label... [Lire la suite]

El Greco record and unprecedented global bidding at Sotheby's Old Masters Evening Sale. Photo: Sotheby's.  LONDON.- This evening, an unprecedented level of participation from new markets propelled Sotheby’s London Evening Sale of Old Master & British Paintings to £35,048,000. Collectors from 33 countries took part in the sale with record numbers from Asia and the Middle East. More than 400 years since El Greco executed Saint Dominic in Prayer in fifteenth century Toledo, bidders from new markets battled tenaciously for... [Lire la suite]

Rachel Ruysch (Amsterdam, 1664 - 1750), Vase de fleurs sur un entablement, nid et insectes. Photo Artcurial - Briest-Poulain-F.Tajan Huile sur toile.Signée et datée 'Rachel Ruysch 39 / AE.76' en haut à gauche; 52 x 41,50 cm (20,28 x 16,19 in.). Estimation : 400 000 / 600 000 €'VASE OF FLOWERS ON AN ENTABLATURE', OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED AND DATED, BY R. RUYSCHProvenance : Ancienne collection Six, Amsterdam ;Sa vente ; Amsterdam, Frederic Muller, 16 octobre 1938, n° 39 ;Vente anonyme ; Amsterdam, Frederic... [Lire la suite]

Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634), Winter Landscape with Skaters, c.1610-1615. Panel, 53 x 95 cm. The Hague, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis THE HAGUE.- A selection of highlights from the remarkable art collection of Eijk and Rose-Marie de Mol van Otterloo will be on display at the Mauritshuis in The Hague this autumn. The exhibition Made in Holland: Old Masters from a private collection in America features 44 masterpieces produced by Dutch masters during the Golden Age. Not only are these works of outstanding quality, their subject... [Lire la suite]

Renaissance Europe was not a promising place for female artists to emerge. Women were expected to marry and have children, and those who did work were not welcomed into male-dominated professions. In fact women were unable to even receive formal art training (a cornerstone of which was the study of the nude).But some did emerge. Privately taught, often by their fathers who were drafting them into the family business, and talented enough to gain commissions on merit alone, some women successfully made a living as artists.Here are ten... [Lire la suite]