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Still Life with Meat, Fish, Vegetables, and Fruit

c. 1615–20
(Flemish, 1582–1647)
Flanders
Oil on panel, the reverse prepared with gesso
71.5 x 104 cm (28 1/8 x 40 15/16 in.)
Gift of Janice Hammond and Edward Hemmelgarn 2018.258
Location: 213 Dutch Painting
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Hulsdonck thoughtfully included condiments here: butter, lemon, parsley for the trotters, and a dab of mustard for the ham.

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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.
A colorful oil painting of various foods on a table including a basket overflowing with vegetables, meat on platters, and fruits scattered across the table cloth.

Still Life with Meat, Fish, Vegetables, and Fruit

c. 1615–20

Jacob van Hulsdonck

(Flemish, 1582–1647)
Flanders

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