Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
Sheet of Studies of Nine Insects
Also titled Blad met negen insecten
Jan van Kessel (I) (Antwerp, 1626–1679)
c. 1653 - c. 1661
- Medium
- paper, watercolor (paint)
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 95 mm x width 132 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
With an almost scientific sense of accuracy, Jan van Kessel drew various sorts of beetles, flies and butterflies and even a caterpillar on this sheet. He relied on illustrations in scientific books on entomology as well as the actual insects themselves. He did not restrict himself to spectacularly coloured exotic insects, for this drawing also features an ordinary housefly and a small cabbage white butterfly.
