Still-Life

1628 · Private collection

still-life

This painting depicts a still-life with melons, plums, cherries, and bread on a table draped with a white damask tablecloth. In the panel the artist has combined a number of his favourite table elements. With its lowered viewpoint, concentration on a limited number of objects and its single-point perspective, this painting anticipates the works of the monochrome banketje in Haarlem over the next decade.

About the Artist

Floris Claesz van Dijck

1575 – 1651

Dutch painter. He came from a wealthy patrician family in Haarlem and spent some time in Italy, where he met Cavaliere d'Arpino. In 1610 van Dijck became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St Luke and in 1637 was elected deacon. He specialized particularly in kitchen and fruit still-lifes. There is an affinity between his motifs and those of Nicolaes Gillis and Floris van Schooten. He enjoyed considerable fame during his lifetime and, with his Haarlem contemporaries Nicolaes Gillis, Floris van Schooten and Roelof Koets, was one of the earliest Dutch still-life painters.

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