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Still life with fruit
(c. 1640-1650)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 67.3 × 79.8 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown paint u.r.: J. D. de Heem f (dot above f)
- Accession Number
- 231-4
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1935
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- 17th Century & Flemish Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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From the 1640s, de Heem was the most important and influential still-life painter in the Netherlands. This painting belongs to an iconographic type invented by him: the pronkstilleven, or sumptuous still life. This popular type of painting enlivened rooms of many Netherlandish homes. De Heem’s technical brilliance gives the work a seductive realism. With the exception of the cherries, all the luscious fruits are from the autumn harvest, richly celebrated in this superb painting.
- Subjects (general)
- Still Lifes
- Subjects (specific)
- bread fruit pieces grape (berry fruit) oysters pomegranate (fruit)
