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"Still Life with Flowers and Butterflies," Maria van Oosterwijck, 1668.
Van Oosterwijck (1630-93) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of florals and still lifes. She was a significant painter for her time, in part because she was also a crafty businesswoman who marketed her paintings to various noble houses, generating quite a demand.
Historians are sometimes unkind to her; she never married, but raised an orphaned nephew, and taught one of her servants to paint and to be self-sufficient. As she never married she's sometimes seen as "incomplete" while fellow painter Rachel Ruysch, who married and raised ten children, is usually depicted very sympathetically.
I like to think of her as a dedicated professional, taking joy in her art and in her autonomy, as one of the few women who were professional artists at the time. I love that she elevated one of her servants to be her own person. Not many upper-class women would do that.
Happy Flower Friday!
From the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
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Meses de #noviembre y #diciembre con #MadeleineBoullogne y #MariaVanOosterwijck como protagonistas.
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"Vanitas Still Life," Maria van Oosterwijck, 1868.
Van Oosterwijck (1630-93) was a Dutch painter of flowers and still lifes, as many women painters of the period were. Few details of her life are known, except she was a respected artist and smart businesswoman who successfully sold paintings to many noble and royal houses in Europe...but was still denied membership in the painter's guild because of her sex.
Here we have a "vanitas" painting; that is, a still life which includes some morbid subject matter to remind the viewer that life is fleeting. It's common for vanitas paintings to have skulls and other markers of death, but also have money (here, a coin-bag), an hourglass, and other markers of things that change and pass by.
An appropriate message for the Halloween season, eh?
From the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
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"Bouquet of Flowers," Maria van Oosterwijck, second half of the 17th century.
Van Oosterwijck (1630-1693) was a Dutch painter of still lifes, mostly florals. She was quite a success, and a canny businesswoman, marketing her works to various crowned heads of Europe. She was a professional painter at a time when few women were, but she was still denied membership in the Painter's Guild because of her sex.
By all accounts, she was a deeply religious woman, and many of her paintings include symbols, either through color or other means, of her religious views. Butterflies were to mean the Resurrection, for instance.
She never married, but dedicated herself to her painting. She raised her nephew, and taught one of her servants to paint and be an artist herself, so she could be self-supporting. I like that aspect of her; not only being independent and self-determined, but helping others to be so as well, even if she was denied some opportunities because of the prejudices of the time.
From a private collection.
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