Kitchen Still-Life

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This is a characteristic kitchen still-life by the artist, a genre in which he specialized. The painting is chiefly an exercise in depicting metallic surfaces and effects of reflected light and was probably intended to hang in the kitchen of a substantial household.

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About the Artist

Cornelis Jacobsz Delff

1570 – 1643

Dutch painter, son of Jacob Willemsz. Delff. He trained with Cornelis Cornelisz. in Haarlem. By 1610, he had settled in Delft where he spent the rest of his life. He entered the Guild of St Luke in 1613. He is one of the earliest painters of still-life, he was admired by his contemporaries for his singular depictions of kitchen interiors, the earliest of which dates to 1597.

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