BROECK, Elias van den
(b. ca. 1650, Antwerpen, d. 1708, Amsterdam)

Forest Floor Landscape

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Oil on canvas, 37 x 30 cm
Private collection

This painting depicts a forest floor landscape with a thistle, fungi, moths, a lizard and snakes. It is a characteristic example of his still-life paintings of insects, reptiles and amphibians set amidst the flora of a forest floor. It has a narrative element: the image of two snakes attacking each other, one opening its jaws to swallow the other, dominates the painting.




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