Oil Painting: Still Life with Cheese, circle of Jan van Kessel I (1626-1679), oil on copper
Key information
Museum number
A165
Object
Oil Painting: Still Life with Cheese, circle of Jan van Kessel I (1626-1679), oil on copper
Gallery label
Still Life with Cheese
Circle of Jan van Kessel I (1626-1679)
Oil on copper
Still life painting, depicting everyday objects, flourished in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century. Small still lifes were often painted on recycled copper printing plates.
This type of composition would have been described as a ‘little breakfast’, a selection of simple foods, such as bread and cheese, and plain tableware like the pewter plate and rush-covered carafe depicted here. The small white objects on the table are ragged comfits, a sugar-coated confectionery of nuts, seeds or strips of cinnamon.
A165
Circle of Jan van Kessel I (1626-1679)
Oil on copper
Still life painting, depicting everyday objects, flourished in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century. Small still lifes were often painted on recycled copper printing plates.
This type of composition would have been described as a ‘little breakfast’, a selection of simple foods, such as bread and cheese, and plain tableware like the pewter plate and rush-covered carafe depicted here. The small white objects on the table are ragged comfits, a sugar-coated confectionery of nuts, seeds or strips of cinnamon.
A165
On display?
Yes
