A Cockchafer, Beetle, Woodlice and other Insects, with a Sprig of Auricula EA1958.81 These formed the basis for

These formed the basis for five paintings

written in cuneiform script

Italian Landscape with Morning Sun (J

with the domes of Saint Mark's rising above it

A Cockchafer, Beetle, Woodlice and other Insects, with a Sprig of Auricula EA1958.81 These formed the basis forJan 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