Still life with fruit, Holland 18th century

The 18th century was the golden age of still life painting, particularly in Northern Europe (but also in Italy and Spain).

There was considerable demand for this type of painting, mainly from a new audience of middle-class buyers.

The sharp rise in demand encouraged a process of specialization, with the identification of "sub-genres" linked to the predominant content of the paintings and to specific names.

Artists thus specialized in creating still lifes whose theme was food, or flowers, or musical instruments and other objects that constitute a particular type of still life, called vanitas (a theme, incidentally, to which they often allude in still lifes). in general).

Our work depicts a fruit still life with a silver mug in the center.

Certain technical features are visible in the work, such as the wide range of colors used in the play of transparencies, giving rise to chiaroscuro and reflections.

The artist contrasts luminosity and chromatic innovation with the obscure world of the time, alternating virtuosity and interlacing both stylistic and chromatic.

Condition : Excellent condition.

Size : 75x97cm.

Provenance : 18th century Holland.