Adriaen van Utrecht’s Fishmonger’s Stall, painted around 1640, turns an ordinary commercial setting into an immense display of marine abundance....
Few seventeenth-century still lifes press abundance upon the eye with the physical insistence of Adriaen van Utrecht’s The Pantry. Painted...
Painted during the 1640s, Adriaen van Utrecht’s Still-Life with Grapes belongs to the mature flourishing of Flemish still-life painting in...
Painted in 1643, Alexander Adriaenssen’s Fish and Dead Game belongs to the mature period of a Flemish painter who made...
Adriaen van Utrecht’s Still-Life with Hare and Birds on a Ring, painted between 1646 and 1649, compresses the visual language...
Alexander Adriaenssen’s Still-Life with Fish, painted between 1630 and 1650, concentrates an extraordinary amount of visual incident within a relatively...
A compact table carries almost the entire visual weight of Alexander Adriaenssen’s Still-Life with Oysters, painted in the 1630s and...
The emergence of the hunting still life, or jachtstuk, in the middle of the seventeenth century marked a decisive shift...
Willem van Aelst executed his Breakfast Piece in 1671, demonstrating the refined technical mastery that secured his reputation among the...
During the mid-seventeenth century, the representation of harvested abundance underwent a profound stylistic transformation across European centers. Willem van Aelst...
Discarded armour, a skull and a long bone occupy Willem van Aelst’s Still-Life with Armour, a black-chalk drawing on vellum...
A broad wicker basket, heaped with fruit and crossed by a strip of dark cloth, governs the centre of Theodoor...