1594
gouache
vellum
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Plate 67: Seven Insects, Including a White Butterfly and a Bee is a 1594 gouache by Joris Hoefnagel, a Renaissance work, depicting Insect, held at National Gallery of Art.
This tiny painting shows seven insects on pale parchment. A white butterfly and a fuzzy bee sit near a long-legged crane fly. Tiny water drops glint on their wings. Hoefnagel zoomed in close to show every hair on the bee’s legs. Gold paint makes the wings shine like metal. Artists rarely painted bugs this big back then. Look up Hoefnagel, Joris next.
Joris Hoefnagel or Georg Hoefnagel (1542 – 24 July 1601) was a Flemish painter, printmaker, miniaturist, draftsman and merchant.
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