A Cockchafer, Beetle, Woodlice and other Insects, with a Sprig of Auricula EA1958.81 Soreau was born near Frankfurt

Soreau was born near Frankfurt

written in cuneiform script

The figure was painted in the garden of the poet and novelist

These formed the basis for five paintings

Italian Landscape with Morning Sun (J

A Cockchafer, Beetle, Woodlice and other Insects, with a Sprig of Auricula EA1958.81 Soreau was born near FrankfurtJan van Kessel was a versatile painter of still life in Antwerp, best known for his small paintings on copper on which he painted insects, shells and flowers similar to the works in Oxford. Together with A 565, A566 and A567, this little picture may have formed part of a larger set of painted fronts for small drawers in a cabinet. As his early work of this kind tends to be more meticulous than his later work and as these works are very neatly