Still Life with Carnations. A thistle grows in front of a dark tree-trunk with sky at right. Carnations grow in front of the tree with butterflies, moths, spiders, flies, snails and toads around.
Van Aelst was one of the most famous Dutch still life painters in the seventeenth century. This painting shows carnation flowers growing from a thistle at the root of a tree trunk. Three butterflies and moth hover around the plant, there are also two toads and a snail on the ground beneath the tree.
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