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Follow the spiral of lemon peel off the plate, then compare the reflections in the pewter jug, the tall glass of red wine and the green roemer at left.
As trade made the Dutch rich in the early 1600s, large still lifes of costly food and tableware found eager buyers, and the Art Institute of Chicago names Pieter Claesz as a leading painter of the banquet piece. Here a cut pie, olives, sugared sweets and a peeled lemon sit on damask edged with lace. Nothing has spoiled: the picture celebrates plenty rather than warning of decay.
Oil on panel · 48 × 76.9 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Dutch Golden Age
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- Museum title
- Still Life
- Artist
- Pieter Claesz (Dutch, 1596/97–1660)
- Date
- c. 1625
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 48 × 76.9 cm (18 7/8 × 30 1/4 in.); Framed: 76.2 × 108.8 × 7 cm (30 × 41 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Simeon B. Williams Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.