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:…
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Dishes with Oysters, Fruit, and Wine

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

c. 1620/1624

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 52.9 x 73.4 cm (20 13/16 x 28 7/8 in.) ; framed: 72.1 x 92.7 x 4.4 cm (28 3/8 x 36 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.)
Culture
Flemish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Patrons' Permanent 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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