Still Life with Flowers, a Snail and Insects, by Joris Hoefnagel, 1589
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Still Life with Flowers, a Snail and Insects

Joris Hoefnagel (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1542–1600 Vienna)

1589

Medium
Watercolor, gouache, and shell gold on vellum
Classification
Drawings
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 5/8 x 3 11/16 in. (11.7 x 9.3 cm)
Culture
Netherlandish
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints
Credit line
Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price, Jean A. Bonna, and Annette de la Renta Gifts, and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2008
Rights
Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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