Still Life with Roemer, Salt Cellar, Tobacco, Lemon, and Olives
Also titled Stilleven met roemer, zoutvat, tabak, citroen en olijven
Jan Jansz van de Velde (III) (1619–1662)
1651
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: depth 7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
This painting showcases the wealth of products brought to the Netherlands by various trading companies. Tobacco and salt were obtained by the Dutch West India Company (WIC). Tobacco came mainly from South America, while salt was initially imported from Spain and Portugal until the Eighty Years’ War and thereafter from Cape Verde and Brazil. Trade, often accompanied by colonial aggression, was the primary driver of Dutch prosperity during this time.
