Pewter and silver plates and vessels, a baked ham, roll of bread, and a rumpled, pearl-white cloth are arranged across a table covered with a dark, olive-green cloth in this vertical still life painting. The table extends into the scene from the right and ends just short of the left edge of the composition. The scrunched white cloth falls down the front side of the table, and many of the objects are arranged on it or around its perimeter. To our left, one lip of a pewter plate hangs over the edge of the table and another lies on the white cloth. Two glasses with thick, textured stems and…
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Still Life with Ham

painter Gerret Willemsz Heda (Dutch, active 1640s and 1650s)

1650

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 98.5 x 82.5 cm (38 3/4 x 32 1/2 in.) ; framed: 123.2 x 108 x 8.9 cm (48 1/2 x 42 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Gift of John S. Thacher
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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