Fruit Still Life with Shells and Tulip. 마우리츠하위스(Mauritshuis). 덴하그(Den Haag, 헤이그:Hague)

Fruit Still Life with Shells and Tulip. 마우리츠하위스(Mauritshuis).

덴하그(Den Haag, 헤이그:Hague). 네덜란드(Netherland)

Balthasar van der Ast

Fruit Still Life with Shells and Tulip

1620

 

This colourful still-life from 1620 is the earliest known painting by Van der Ast, one of the first still-life specialists. An expensive Chinese porcelain dish holds quinces, pomegranates, apricots and grapes. Some exotic shells and a tulip are laid out on the table.

Van der Ast chose a high vantage point, so that we are looking down on the table and can see each object clearly. This composition was customary for still-lifes from the beginning of the seventeenth century.

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