Painted in 1653, Willem van Aelst’s Still-Life with Fruit, Parrot, and Nautilus Pitcher is an oil on canvas measuring 77...
During the mid-seventeenth century, the representation of harvested abundance underwent a profound stylistic transformation across European centers. Willem van Aelst...
Adriaen van Utrecht’s Fishmonger’s Stall, painted around 1640, turns an ordinary commercial setting into an immense display of marine abundance....
Into a nearly black field rises a branch laden with heavy citrus fruit, its pale leaves and rough skins interrupted...
Suspended plumage dominates Willem van Aelst’s Still-Life of Dead Birds and Hunting Weapons, painted in 1660, an oil on canvas...
Discarded armour, a skull and a long bone occupy Willem van Aelst’s Still-Life with Armour, a black-chalk drawing on vellum...
Willem van Aelst executed his Breakfast Piece in 1671, demonstrating the refined technical mastery that secured his reputation among the...
Painted in 1643, Alexander Adriaenssen’s Fish and Dead Game belongs to the mature period of a Flemish painter who made...
Pieter Aertsen’s Cook in front of the Stove, dated 1559, gives a kitchen worker the scale and pictorial authority that...
Pieter Aertsen’s Market Scene with Christ and the Adulteress, when the eye first encounters it, unsettles the expected order of...
Painted in 1559, Pieter Aertsen’s The Cook gives an anonymous kitchen worker an unusually imposing pictorial presence. Nearly life-size within...
A compact table carries almost the entire visual weight of Alexander Adriaenssen’s Still-Life with Oysters, painted in the 1630s and...