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Laid Table

1611 · Private collection

still-life

The aesthetically conservative principle of tables arranged strictly parallel to the horizontal edges of the painting was followed by Nicolaes Gillis and Floris Claesz van Dijck. (Predecessors were probably family paintings such as Marten van Heemskerck's. ) Their still-lifes are classified as 'ontbijtjes' (breakfast still-lifes).

Laid Table

About the Artist

Nicolaes Gillis

Dutch painter, born in Antwerp. He moved with his parents to Haarlem, where he was documented between 1610 and 1631. In 1635 he married there Tanneken Abeel from Bruges. Only a few paintings by him survived, mostly banquet pieces (banketje or ontbijtje) painted in a style close to that of Floris van Dijck. Floris van Dijck and Nicolaes Gillis exerted a strong influence on the following generation of painters.

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