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We look slightly down onto five plates, bowls, and dishes filled with oysters, raisins, prunes, figs, and sweets along with a wine glass and decanter, a stack of round, wooden boxes, and two seashells arrayed on a wooden tabletop against a dark background in this horizontal still life painting. Closest to us to our left, eleven glistening oysters on the halfshell are arranged on a round, iron-gray dish. Also close to us, to our right, a white porcelain bowl with a wide, flaring lip is painted with blue flowers, and it is piled with breads, rolls, and pastries. Two shells sit near that bowl:…

Dishes with Oysters, Fruit, and Wine

Osias Beert the Elder (Flemish, c. 1580 - 1624)

c. 1620/1624 · oil on panel

National Gallery of Art · Patrons' Permanent Fund

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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