Still Life
Artist
Joris van Son
(Flemish, 1623–1667)
Date1658
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionscanvas: 55.6 x 45.9 cm (21 7/8 x 18 1/16 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John Adam, Jr.
Terms
Object number1983.39
Label TextJoris van Son was a still-life specialist whose paintings almost always include fruit. This work is no exception with its extremely colorful display of seven different varieties. As tempting as Van Son's still life is today, it must have been even more so in the seventeenth century, since most of the fruits depicted were not native to the Netherlands, but would have been imported.
Van Son's still life also includes wine in two kinds of glasses. One, a Roemer, is supported by an elegant gold- and-silver glass holder known as a bekerschroef. This device was used to turn a simple glass into an elegant vessel by providing a decorative stem and base.ProvenanceMr. and Mrs. John Adam, Jr. (25% partial ownership given 10/15/84; additional 25% partial ownership given 12/17/91; remaining 50% partial ownership given 11/5/97)On View
Not on view
