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