# Still Life with Cheese

- By: Floris Claesz van Dijck (1575–1651)
- Date: c. 1615
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: support: height 82.5 cm x width 111.4 cm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4821--89a7cfe4ed585328b467c64966c22634)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/MbBYj/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Fruit, bread, and cheese – grouped by type – are set on a table covered with costly damask tablecloths. The illusion of reality is astounding; the pewter plate extending over the edge of the table seems close enough to touch. The Haarlem painter Floris van Dijck ranked among the pioneers of Dutch still-life painting.