Musée No:318.018 rhinoceros The bridge was built on

The bridge was built on time but the foreman (predictably) regretted his decision so gave a final order to the Devil - that he go and collect water for all the builders

an entomologist and botanist with an interest mainly in ferns and orchids

It was the portrait of his mistress but thought to be an allegory of a new bride's lost innocence

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Musée No:318.018 rhinoceros The bridge was built onTulips Artist: Anton L Koster Date: 1880 1937 Anton L. Koster (1859 1937) was a Dutch painter and designer. He was best known as a painter of flower fields. Inspired by Impressionism and the warm, expressive colours he had seen in France, he specialized in painting flower fields. He also admired Claude Monet's painting Bulb fields and windmill at Rijnsburg (1886). He was very successful with his work and was called the 'Rembrandt' among the Dutch