A half-peeled pomegranate, a few nuts, a bunch of purple grapes, and a glass of pale yellow wine sit on the corner of a stone ledge against a dark background in this vertical still life painting. The corner of the chipped gray ledge is close to and lines up with the lower left corner of the painting. Two hazelnuts sit near the front of the ledge, and a twig with three more nuts in papery husks are attached to a twig. Behind that, the flaring cup of the wineglass is made up of flat panels, which are inwardly scalloped along the upper edge, like an upside-down badminton shuttlecock. The stem…
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Still Life with Fruit

painter Jacob van Walscapelle (Dutch, 1644 - 1727)

1675

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 40 x 34.7 cm (15 3/4 x 13 11/16 in.) ; framed: 58.7 x 53 x 5.7 cm (23 1/8 x 20 7/8 x 2 1/4 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Juliet and Lee Folger/The Folger Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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