Still Life with Asparagus
Also titled Stilleven met asperges
Adriaen Coorte (ca. –ca.)
1697
- Medium
- panel, paper, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 25 cm x width 20.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- A.A. des Tombe Bequest, The Hague
- 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
Coorte produced mostly small, intimate still lifes. Through their simple subjects – asparagus or berries – these modest paintings stand out in stark contrast to the sumptuous still lifes that were in fashion at the time. While the aim of those works was to present a superabundance of costly objects and foodstuffs, here attention is focused on the refined rendering of a single vegetable.
