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Shells on a Stone Plinth
Also titled Schelpen op een stenen plint
Adriaen Coorte (ca. –ca.)
1698
- Medium
- panel, paper, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 0 cm x width 0 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from a private collector
- 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 arranged the shells on a stone plinth against a dark background in such a way that each one receives attention, displaying its own form, colour, and structure. Coorte, moreover, painted them life size. These kinds of exotic shells were brought to the Netherlands in the ships of the Dutch East and West India Companies and were highly prized by collectors, who paid enormous amounts for them.
