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Still Life with Fruit
Also titled Stilleven met vruchten
Pieter Gallis (1633–1697)
1673
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 39.5 cm x width 34.2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- D. Franken Bequest, Le Vésinet
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
The types of fruit depicted here had been cultivated for thousands of years before they became known in the Netherlands. Grapes originated in Italy and Spain; peaches came from China; and melons from Persia, Southern Egypt, or India. Thanks to the global trade, newly introduced fruit made its way into the kitchens of affluent North European citizens, as well as into their still-life paintings.
