A wide array of fruits is displayed upon a table. On the Delft Blue dish, one can see a Mirabelle, a mandarin and a half-peeled lemon. The latter was an expensive import, and therefore a luxury item. Behind this, stands a tazza: a bowl on stand, usually made of precious metal, and intended to hold wine, sweets or fruits. Plums and grapes rest on the top, while apricots, a quince, cherries, peaches and grapes are arranged in a basket. A ladybird crawls across the grape leaves, and a caterpillar or centipede creeps along a twig above the leaves in the niche. To the right of the hanging grapes, an admiral butterfly alights on the wall of the alcove, an insect that is attracted to rotting fruit.
| Artist |
Johannes Borman
RKD
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| Title | Still Life with Fruits |
| Date | ca. 1650 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom left: JBorman: f: |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1911-EE |
| Acquisition credit |
bequest
Vermeersch, Gustave Saint-Gilles (Brussels) 1911 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1911-EE |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/507/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300015638 still lifes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25F711(BUTTERFLY)
insects: butterfly
Iconclass
25F711(FLY) insects: fly Iconclass 25G21(GRAPE) fruits (GRAPE) Iconclass 25G21(LEMON) fruits: lemon Iconclass 25G21(NECTARINE) fruits (NECTARINE) Iconclass 25G21(PEACH) fruits: peach Iconclass 25G21(PLUM) fruits: plum Iconclass 25G21(QUINCE) fruits: quince Iconclass 41A7711(+1) container of precious metal (+ metal) Iconclass 41A7751 container made of plant material other than wood: basket Iconclass 41C26121 (half-)peeled fruit, e.g. lemon Iconclass 41C323 glass, rummer Iconclass 41C341(+0) dish, plate, saucer (+ variant) Iconclass 41C37 table-cloth Iconclass 41C6 foodstuffs; still life of foodstuffs Iconclass 41E still life of miscellaneous objects Iconclass 41E1 still life of related objects Iconclass 48AA9831 foliage, tendrils, branches ~ ornament - AA - stylized Iconclass |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
| Museum van Schoone Kunsten : Catalogus ; Oude Meesters, Schilderstukken, teekeningen, plaatsneden (met geschiedkundig overzicht) / Maurice Dupuis, Georges Charles Nicolas Marie Hulin de Loo, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Drukkerij F. De Vos, 1938 ; Gent : Stad Gent, 1938 (p. 28) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. I, p. 58-59 (ill.)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021 |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021 |
| Museum of Fine Arts Ghent : The Collection (exhibition opened on March 21th 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Ghent : Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2021 |
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