MARSEUS VAN SCHRIECK, Otto
(b. 1619/20, Nijmegen, d. 1678, Amsterdam)

Still-Life with Insects and Amphibians (detail)

1662
Oil on canvas
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig

This painting also shows bizarre botanical species, such as a coral fungus on the left and thistles, under which a lizard - a so-called lacerta - is hiding, about to attack the toad.