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JOHANNA HEROLT (1668–1723)

Still life with fruit and Blue-Backed Manakin

c.1705?

RCIN 921239

This watercolour combines the late seventeenth-century tradition of Dutch still-life painting with Merian’s particular interest in exotic species. The blue and white china bowl and the tiny insects on the fruit are typical of a still life of this period while the blue-backed manakin is a native of Surinam.


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