Still Life with Meat, Fish, Vegetables, and Fruit

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Still Life with Meat, Fish, Vegetables, and Fruit

Jacob van HulsdonckLinkedCulture matchlcp-21e0026cc746

Date
c. 1615–20
Medium
Oil on panel, the reverse prepared with gesso
Culture
Flanders
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
315934

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Jacob van Hulsdonck depicted a colorful array of foods, and tablewares ranging from an earthenware trencher to delicate Chinese porcelain—an expensive luxury made possible by international trade. For seventeenth-century viewers, the quantity and variety of foods would have represented a utopian world without scarcity or hunger. Partially eaten food and an overturned glass suggest that diners have just departed, leaving insects to explore the remains. Hulsdonck thoughtfully included condiments here: butter, lemon, parsley for the trotters, and a dab of mustard for the ham.

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Credit line
Gift of Janice Hammond and Edward Hemmelgarn
Provenance
by 1809: Johann Melchior Edler von Birkenstock [1738–1809], Vienna | 1811: (Artaria, Vienna, Johan Melchior Edler von Birkenstock sale, March 1811, lot 387 [not sold]) | c. 1811: Antonia (Anthonie) Brentano (née von Birkenstock) [1780–1869], Frankfurt | Kohlbacher, Frankfurt, Antonia von Brentano sale, April 4–6, 1870, lot 29 (purchased by seller's grandson, Emil Georg von Brentano) | Emil Georg von Brentano [1845–1890], Frankfurt | Presumably by descent to Franz Anton Johann von Brentano (1882–1940), Frankfurt | Franz Anton Johann von Brentano and Marga Luise von Brentano [née von Heister; d. 1964] | By descent to Bettina Birstein [née von Brentano; d. 1978] | By descent to Hiltrud Michaeli (née Birstein), Saarbrücken | 2012: (Sotheby's, London, December 5, 2012, lot 10 [as “The Property of a Lady”]) | (Johnny van Haeften, London)

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