Still Life with Fruit, Oysters, and a Porcelain Bowl
Also titled Stilleven met vruchten, oesters en een porseleinen kom
Abraham Mignon (Frankfurt am Main, 1640–1679)
1660 - 1679
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 6.8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- 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 composition of this still life is both sumptuous and inventive. Mignon set the roemer, the green glass at the left, upside down. Reflected in it is a window, and a view of a church tower in Utrecht, where Mignon lived. The porcelain bowl from Asia was a sign of prosperity as well as being a showpiece on the table.
