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Rachel Ruysch, according to the artist, was taught by Willem van Aelst. From her studio in Amsterdam, she painted a long succession of flower paintings, several fruit pieces and a number of 'forest floors' of which this is a relatively early example. The type was invented by Otto Marseus van Shrieck in about 1650 and imitated by Ruysch. A number of details in the composition have been inspired by pictures of this kind by de Heem, Mignon and Willem van Aelst.