# Still Life with Meat, Fish, Vegetables, and Fruit

- By: Jacob van Hulsdonck (Flemish, 1582–1647)
- Date: c. 1615–20
- Medium: Oil on panel, the reverse prepared with gesso
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: 71.5 x 104 cm (28 1/8 x 40 15/16 in.)
- Culture: Flanders
- Credit line: Gift of Janice Hammond and Edward Hemmelgarn
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.258)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.258/2018.258_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Jacob van Hulsdonck depicted a colorful array of foods, and tablewares ranging from an earthenware trencher to delicate Chinese porcelain—an expensive luxury made possible by international trade. For seventeenth-century viewers, the quantity and variety of foods would have represented a utopian world without scarcity or hunger. Partially eaten food and an overturned glass suggest that diners have just departed, leaving insects to explore the remains.