Flowers in a Grotesque Vase, ca. 1635. Orsola Maddalena Caccia. Oil on canvas. Bequest of Errol M. Rudman, 2020.
Caccia ran a painting studio that supported a convent at Moncalvo founded by her father, the painter Guglielmo Caccia (1568–1625). The strongly individuated elements evenly distributed across a monochrome background result in a captivating effect of surface pattern. These features were well suited to religious meditation and were probably derived from her study of Northern European botanical prints.