“Then portraiture, and, at the bottom, still life painting.” History painting required artists to paint nude models, which ...

Her still-life paintings in muted pastel earth tones often feature subjects with distorted disproportions. A woman faces away from the viewer with exaggerated back muscles bulging off the canvas ...

Titled “Rachel Ruysch: Nature Into Art,” the show ... under the apprenticeship of Willem van Aelst, a still life specialist. Ruysch’s paintings exhibit a careful attention to detail ...