# Still Life with Flowers, a Snail and Insects, in Gardens and Botanicals

Joris Hoefnagel painted this in 1589, aged 47. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> A spray of flowers is laid out on the vellum alongside a snail, butterflies and other insects, each painted with microscopic care in watercolour and gouache and touched with shell gold, powdered gold bound in gum.

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## The work

- Date: 1589
- Medium: Watercolor, gouache, and shell gold on vellum
- Dimensions: Sheet: 4 5/8 x 3 11/16 in. (11.7 x 9.3 cm)
- Type: Drawings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008.110
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Joris Hoefnagel](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/joris-hoefnagel), Netherlandish, 1542–1600

Hoefnagel, the son of an Antwerp diamond merchant, travelled widely through Europe, making topographical drawings that were engraved for the city atlas Civitates orbis terrarum. He became court miniaturist first to Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria and later to Emperor Rudolf II.

3 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Joris Hoefnagel](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/joris-hoefnagel?hang=749) (3 works)
- [More Northern Renaissance](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/northern-renaissance?hang=749) (62 works)
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