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This painting depicts a forest floor still-life with a variety of mushrooms and flowers, including morning glories and a tulip, a frog, a snake and various butterflies.
Otto Marseus van Schrieck was one of the leading painters of the forest floor still-life. Depicting with meticulous detail the creatures and plants of the forest undergrowth, often in nocturnal settings, this sub-genre had a great vogue in the mid-17th century.
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