On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P01165
- Author
- Hamen y León, Juan van der (Spanish)
- Title
- Still life with fruit and vegetables
- Chronology
- 1623
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 56 cm x 110 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- No
- Entrance
- MUSEO DE LA TRINIDAD
- Procedence
- Trinity Museum
On a bench or sideboard are a
basket of apricots and plums, with
a pumpkin on one side and a group
of figs on the other.
The symmetry of the composition,
its tenebrist light, meticulous
execution and confident rendering
of space, link this work to the
tradition of sober, straightforward
still lifes by Sánchez Cotán and
Zurbarán, creators of this type of
work and paradigms for that genre
in Spain.
The humble quality of the objects
depicted here is exceptional in
Hamen's work, compared to other,
much more exuberant, still
lifes.
Probably originally in one of the
monasteries disentailed in 1835,
this rendering of humble fruits
could be interpreted as a
suggestion or reminder of the
garden at the convent for which it
might have been painted.
