Dutch Art Deep Dive: Rachel Ruysch, Still Life with Flowers, 1709

Join us as NCMA Associate Curator of European Art, Michele Frederick, shares stories behind some of the masterpieces featured in special exhibition, "Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," now on view through January 7, 2024.

This exhibition explores how international travel and trade transformed Dutch art and society. It features renowned paintings by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Gerrit Dou, Jacob van Ruisdael, Rachel Ruysch, and other celebrated artists as well as prints and decorative arts.

The show concludes with beautiful objects in silver and ceramic and depictions of daily life, demonstrating the coexistence of the familiar and the foreign—a world we still inhabit.

Learn more and get your tickets at ncartmuseum.org/dutchart

"Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Pictured: Rachel Ruysch, Still Life with Flowers, 1709, oil on canvas, 30 × 25.2 in., Promised gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art; Photograph: © 2023 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston