Still Life with Meat, Fish, Vegetables, and Fruit

c. 1615–20
(Flemish, 1582–1647)
71.5 x 104 cm (28 1/8 x 40 15/16 in.)
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Hulsdonck thoughtfully included condiments here: butter, lemon, parsley for the trotters, and a dab of mustard for the ham.

Description

Jacob van Hulsdonck depicted a colorful array of foods, and tablewares ranging from an earthenware trencher to delicate Chinese porcelain—an expensive luxury made possible by international trade. For seventeenth-century viewers, the quantity and variety of foods would have represented a utopian world without scarcity or hunger. Partially eaten food and an overturned glass suggest that diners have just departed, leaving insects to explore the remains.
Still Life with Meat, Fish, Vegetables, and Fruit

Still Life with Meat, Fish, Vegetables, and Fruit

c. 1615–20

Jacob van Hulsdonck

(Flemish, 1582–1647)
Flanders

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