Robert Schindler, curator at the Toledo Museum of Art, solves the quandary by stressing her life story as the narrative thread. The result, “Rachel Ruysch: Nature Into Art,” with 48 paintings ...

Rachel Ruysch: Flowers in a Glass Vase 1704. Courtesy Detroit Institute of Arts Rachel Ruysch: Illustration from Observations of a Surinam Toad , ca. 1688. ©The Royal Society ...

Rachel Ruysch, born in the Hague in 1664, rose to fame for her exquisitely detailed still lifes. ... Rachel Ruysch, Flower Still Life (ca. 1716–20). Collection of the Toledo Museum of Art.

Flowers and Fruit in a Forest, Rachel Ruysch, 1714 Toledo Museum of Art / Städtische Kunstsammlungen & Museen Augsburg. In the 17th century, Holland was in bloom. Following a bout of ...

The Toledo Museum of Art devotes an exhibition to the 17th- and 18th-century Dutch artist, who enjoyed a decades-long career as the creator of vivid, virtuosic still lifes.