Fruit, flowers, birds, small animals, insects, and fish are piled in and set around a woven basket in woodland setting in this vertical still life painting. The color palette is dominated by rich colors of emerald and pine green, plum purple, butter yellow, and pumpkin orange, with touches of silver and robin’s egg blue. The scene is lit strongly from our left, and the background is swallowed in shadow. The wicker basket with its tall, arched handle has been set before a rough-hewn, stone archway. Birds perch in the tree branches above the basket and on the handle. The fruit in the basket…

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Still Life with Fruit, Fish, and a Nest

Abraham Mignon (German, 1640 - 1679)

c. 1675

Medium: oil on canvas
Classification: Painting
Dimensions: overall: 94 x 73.5 cm (37 x 28 15/16 in.) ; framed: 117.5 x 98.4 x 5.1 cm (46 1/4 x 38 3/4 x 2 in.)
Culture: Dutch
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. John Heinz III
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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