Still Life

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Still Life

Jan Jansz. van de VeldeLinkedCulture matchlcp-466f0e13f2cf

Date
1658
Medium
Oil on canvas
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
1945

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Many still-life painters showed lavish arrangements of sumptuous food on precious gold and silver platters, but Jan van de Velde specialized in the more middle-class pleasures of tavern life. The pipe is broken. The rope molders away. The oysters, lemons, and wine will be consumed or will spoil. All of these are reminders of the transience of life. The playing cards may symbolize the vagaries of fate, and the wine could indicate redemption through Christ. Netherlands, Europe

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Gift of Bruce B. Dayton

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