Still Life of Food, a Jug and Glasses on a Table
Pieter Claesz (Burgsteinfurt c.1597 - Haarlem 1660)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1640 (monogrammed and dated)
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
629 x 876 mm (24 3/4 x 34 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 960080
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Still Life of Food, a Jug and Glasses on a Table by Pieter Claesz (Burg-Steinfurt 1597 – Haarlem 1660), signed with monogram A/PCH and dated 1640. An ontbijt (breakfast piece), depicting a table, partly covered by a white tablecloth, on which is laid a blue-and-white ceramic bowl of berries, cherries, grapes and plums, metal plates bearing a cooked crab, a bread roll, a coffee jug and decorative rummer drinking glasses. The perishable food, the knife balancing over the table edge, the butterfly on a vine leaf, and the upturned and overturned glasses show that this is a vanitas image.
Provenance
Acquired by Charles Winn in 1821; purchased by the National Trust 1.12.2002 with the aid of a 75 % grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Credit line
Nostell Priory, The St Oswald Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
A/PCH/1640
Makers and roles
Pieter Claesz (Burgsteinfurt c.1597 - Haarlem 1660), artist
References
Brockwell 1915 Maurice Walter Brockwell, Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art in the Collection of Lord St Oswald at Nostell Priory, London 1915, cat. 74
