# Still-Life with Fruit and Insects [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUYSCH, Rachel]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on wood, 44 x 60 cm ## Commentary This luscious sample of life on Earth represents at least two passions of its time: taxonomy \(or categorization\) and still-lifes, which emphasize the pleasure of the senses and their ephemerality. Ruysch was court painter to the elector palatine Johann Wilhelm, who gave this painting and its pendant to his father-in-law, Cosimo III de' Medici. ## Related artworks - [A Vase of Flowers]() - [Basket of Flowers]() - [Bouquet in a Glass Vase]() - [Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase]() - [Flower Still-Life]() - [Flowers, Fruit, and Insects]() - [Flowers on a Tree Trunk]() - [Still-Life of Flowers \(detail\)]() - [Still-Life of Flowers]() - [Still-Life of Flowers]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life with Bouquet of Flowers and Plums]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()