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Still Life with Sweets

1622

Juan van der Hamen y Léon

(Spanish, 1596–1631)
Culture
Spain
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Framed: 83 x 122 x 7.5 cm (32 11/16 x 48 1/16 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 58 x 97 cm (22 13/16 x 38 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1980.6
Public Domain
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Location
212 Baroque Painting and Sculpture
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Description

Placed on a simple stone ledge, this bold arrangement includes a wooden box, a dark glass bottle, some walnuts, an elaborate Venetian glass, and several sweets called turrones. These delicacies are a mixture of pine nuts, honey, almonds, and hazelnuts. The picture may not represent an actual meal or snack. Rather, the artist played with contrasts and harmonies of shapes, textures, and colors. During his short career van der Hamen, whose father was from the Netherlands, worked at the Spanish royal court and created biblical pictures, history paintings, allegories, and landscapes. He is best known for his portraits and still lifes.
A horizontally oriented, realistic oil painting depicts a still life featuring two stemmed plates of terrones against a solid, dark background. The terrones include pine nut cubes and flat, pine nut rectangles topped with hazelnuts or almonds. The left plate stands on the smooth, grey ledge, cracked walnuts strewn around it. The right plate stands on a beige, wood box right of a clear, stemmed glass. Between the plates stands a dark, squared bottle.

Still Life with Sweets

1622

Juan van der Hamen y Léon

(Spanish, 1596–1631)
Spain

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