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Still Life with a Vase of Flowers and a Dead Frog
Also titled Stilleven met bloemenvaas en dode kikvors
Jacob Marrel (Frankenthal, 1614–1681)
1634
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 40.3 cm x width 31 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of H.W. Mesdag, The Hague
- 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
Jacob Marrel’s specialized in ‘portraits’ of tulips in bloom. Tulip bulbs were collected fanatically in 17th-century Holland, and astronomical prices were sometimes paid for a single bulb. In this painting as well, tulips play a leading role. The whimsically shaped red-and-white and red-and-yellow striped tulips were especially prized. Although nature creates them, it also lets them wither and die – just like the dead frog at the right.
