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Sprig of White Currants with Insects
Also titled Takje witte aalbessen met insecten
Jan van Kessel (I) (Antwerp, 1626–1679)
c. 1653 - c. 1661
- Medium
- copper (metal), oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: height 20.1 cm x width 23.6 cm x depth 2.5 cm (support incl. frame)
- 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
This scene is painted on a copper panel. Its smooth surface was well suited to meticulous and detailed finish. Van Kessel made dozens of such little ‘coppers’ of insects and other animals, which he would arrange in a larger composition. They may have also served as decorative panels for a small cabinet of curiosities.
