
Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750)Dutch Golden Age · 1690s–1740sPainted here after this hand, never after their pictures
Dutch Golden Age 1664–1750
Rachel Ruysch
Flowers against the dark, every petal exact.
Gone 276 years, so the hand is everyone’s. We describe it to the painters: the light, the ground, the palette, the stroke. The picture is yours.
Default palette: Florentine
What shall we hang here?The line above becomes the first.
Painted here 3 judged
The hand, three times over
Each of these was painted in this studio in this hand and passed the art gate before it hung. Nothing here is a photograph of a painting.






