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2/2 The charming threats of nature: snake and thistle by Otto Marseus Schrieck. It's his day.
Almost sculptural in its stillness & solidity: Annunciation, 1657, by Nicolas Poussin. Born on this day in 1594.
2/2 More fantastic flowers, in a glass vase on a stone table (great juxtapositions of texture and tactility!), by the amazing Rachel Ruysch, born on this day in 1664.
2/2 Fish market at evening by a river. Drawn by Isaac van Ostade, whose day has been today.
2/2 Boy pushing baby in a wheelbarrow. As captured in water-color by Isaac van Ostade of Haarlem, born OTD 1621.
2/2 Mars’s view, given to us in the mirror. Clever Tintoretto!
2/2 Beautiful Annunciation by Louis Finson. Having a more normative moment. His day is today.
3/3 Summertime in 1894. Life was good. Ducks got fed. Nobody drowned. By Mary Cassatt, born OTD 1844.