Still Life of Birds and a Butterfly
This still life of dead birds on a rocky shelf is given an elegiac quality by the addition of a butterfly, suggesting (through the brevity of its own life), the brevity and mutability of existence and also by the exquisite softness of the still forms conveyed by brushwork. Thi...
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Painting
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16995
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painting
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normalized
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provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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2
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import
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Medium
oil on canvas
Genre
paintings