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.