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Description: Fruit and rich dishes on a table, formerly called A dessert

TitleFruit and rich dishes on a table, formerly called A dessert

Creator nameHeem, Jan Davidsz de

Creator nationality/cultureDutch

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1640

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010062105

Accession number1321

SubjectsFood in artDrinking vesselsStill-life painting, Dutch--17th century

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Chapter 13: Still Life

Seymour Slive

Dutch Painting, 1600–1800

~Still-life painting is a less conspicuous theme than landscape, genre painting, or portraiture, but it is as typical of Dutch taste and pictorial genius. No other country produced still lifes in such quantity or quality, and no other branch of painting reveals more clearly the Dutch devotion to the visible. Much of it reflects their love of domestic culture, so...

Author

Seymour Slive

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.277-292

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23924&redirecttoanchor=67725

Chapter subject tags:Still-life painting, Dutch--17th centuryFlowers--Symbolic aspectsVanitas (Art)Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669Aelst, Willem van, approximately 1627-approximately 1683Beyeren, Abraham van, approximately 1620-1690

1. The Master of The Paston Treasure: In Search of an Attribution

Andrew Moore and Robert Wenley

The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World

The Paston Treasure may at first sight appear to be a typical example of the seventeenth-century Netherlandish still-life tradition, embedded in the practice of generations of preceding masters...

Author

Andrew Moore and Robert Wenley

PublisherYale Center for British Art

Related print edition pages: pp.62-75

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00266.002

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21479&redirecttoanchor=67725

Chapter subject tags:Master of the Paston Treasure, active approximately 1660-approximately 1670. Paston treasureArt--DatingArt--CommissioningVanitas (Art)Painting--Attribution

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