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Description: | This picture is attributed to the Austrian painter Franz Michael Sigismund von Burgau. Burgau focused on the plants and insects living and growing around a stump near a stream. Flowers, reptiles and butterflies are minutely rendered in his characteristic linear style. The elaborate detail, the appearance of flatness achieved by the precise technique, and the cold palette create a distinctive image of wildness. The name of Matthias Withoos has also been associated with this depiction of shadowy undergrowth. | Subjects: | still life (forest floor butterfly lizard tree stump snail) flowers); animal (insect | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Burgau, Franciscus Michael Sigismund von (Austrian painter, 1678-1754) Æ Previously attributed to Withoos, Matthias (Dutch painter, 1627-1703, active in Italy) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8990... | Go to resource |
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