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A Rose and Five Insects
Also titled Een roos en vijf insecten
Christoffel van den Berghe (Antwerp, ca. –na 1)
1618
- Medium
- parchment (animal material), watercolor (paint), gouache (paint)
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 130 mm x width 166 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Drawn floral still lifes from the first half of the 17th century are rare. Only later in the century would flower arrangements come to occupy a modest place in the art of drawing of the Northern Netherlands. Christoffel van den Berghe’s still life consists of a single blossom. The large pale pink rose faces down. Could this be a reference to the transience of all earthly life?
