Still-Life

1640 · Private collection

still-life

The painting depicts a still-life with pies on a pewter plate, a roemer, a candle, a pipe and a roll of tobacco, all upon a wooden table. It is typical of the artist's later works, and was probably painted circa 1640, shortly after he returned from his second stay in Paris to his native Strasbourg.

About the Artist

Sébastien Stoskopff

1597 – 1657

French still-life painter, active mainly in Strasbourg. He, like Louise Moillon, combined a Netherlandish tradition and technique with French classicism. He worked in Paris from 1621, returned to Strasbourg in 1641, but had been in Venice in 1629 and met Sandrart, whom he already knew. He painted in a spare, stiff, almost archaic style that has appealed greatly to modern taste - most of his paintings have come to light since the 1930s. The best collection is in the Musée de l'Oeuvre de Notre Dame, Strasbourg.

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