Artist: Balthasar Van Der Ast
Date: 1620
Size: 46 x 64 cm
Museum: Mauritshuis (The Hague, Netherlands)
Technique: Oil Painting
This colourful still-life from 1620 is the earliest known painting by Van der Ast, one of the first still-life specialists. An expensive Chinese porcelain dish holds quinces, pomegranates, apricots and grapes. Some exotic shells and a tulip are laid out on the table. Van der Ast chose a high vantage point, so that we are looking down on the table and can see each object clearly. This composition was customary for still-lifes from the beginning of the seventeenth century.
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