Still Life with Fruit and Oysters
Also titled Stilleven met vruchten en oesters
Abraham Mignon (Frankfurt am Main, 1640–1679)
1660 - 1679
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 11.7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)
- 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
This carefully laid table likely never existed in reality. However, the food items depicted did form part of the meals enjoyed by the wealthy. They washed down fresh fruit and oysters with a glass of fine wine. Despite appearing local, many of the products and raw materials were imported from neighbouring countries. For instance, bread was baked locally, but the used grain came from countries bordering the Baltic Sea.
