# Still Life with a Vase of Flowers and a Dead Frog

- By: Jacob Marrel (Frankenthal, 1614–1681)
- Date: 1634
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: support: height 40.3 cm x width 31 cm
- Credit line: Gift of H.W. Mesdag, The Hague
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-772--1d9349268559bf1a7f761eb6397f0922)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/GyDSH/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.