The Dutch ‘onbijtjes’ (‘breakfasts’) are representations of tables covered with a wide range of food and drink, fine cutlery, utensils and dishes and jugs, all of which are displayed on expensive linen against a neutral background. In a ‘banketje’ (‘banquet’), the display is even more lavish, often including pies and oysters, and costly objects in precious metals or Chinese porcelain. These depictions in no way reflect what the average citizen used in daily life. Heda’s paintings are distinguished by their brown and grey, metallic colouring, for which reason they are called ‘monochrome banketjes’. Certain objects crop up time and time again, such as the pewter pitchers and bowls, cutlery, silverware such as tazzas, and fruits like the half-peeled lemon. Pies and hams also feature on the menu of ‘permanent’ ingredients.
| Artist |
Willem Claesz. Heda
RKD
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| Title | Still Life with Ham and Bread |
| Date | 1643 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Location | Haarlem TGN |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature and year bottom right on the tablecloth: . HEDA . / 1649. |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1914-CU |
| Acquisition credit |
bequest
Scribe, Fernand Ghent 1913 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1914-CU |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/655/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300015638 still lifes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25G21(CHESTNUT)
fruits: chestnut
Iconclass
25G21(LEMON) fruits: lemon Iconclass 41A711 table Iconclass 41A7711(+1) container of precious metal (+ metal) Iconclass 41C26121 (half-)peeled fruit, e.g. lemon Iconclass 41C31 table-ware Iconclass 41C311 table-knife Iconclass 41C323 glass, rummer Iconclass 41C341 dish, plate, saucer Iconclass 41C37 table-cloth Iconclass 41C38 laid table as still life Iconclass 41C6 foodstuffs; still life of foodstuffs Iconclass 41C621 bread, loaf Iconclass 41C694 ham Iconclass 41E still life of miscellaneous objects Iconclass 41E1 still life of related objects Iconclass |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
| Willem Claesz Heda / Jan Pieter Ballegeer. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 80-81) |
| Willem Claesz Heda / Jan Pieter Ballegeer. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 340, nr. 743) |
| A modest message as intimated by the painters of the "monochrome banketje" / Nicolaas Rudolph Alexander Vroom. - Schiedam : Interbook International, 1980-1999 (jg. 1, p. 75-76) |
| A modest message as intimated by the painters of the "monochrome banketje" / Nicolaas Rudolph Alexander Vroom. - Schiedam : Interbook International, 1980-1999 (jg. 2, p. 77, nr. 374) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Robert Hoozee. - Brussel : Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, 1988 (p. 61-62) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent = Museum of Fine Arts Ghent / Claudie De Guillebon, Jacques Ostier, Robert Hoozee, Monique Tahon-Vanroose. - Parijs : Association des Amis de "Musées 2000", 1989 (p. 64 (ill. 123)) |
| Chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand (exposition itinérante 'Quarante chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand' Bruxelles, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 12 février - 6 mars 1949 ; Liège, 12 mars - 3 avril 1949 ; Luxembourg, 9 avril - 1 mai 1949 ; Lille, 14 mai - 12 juin 1949) / Georges Chabot, Paul Eeckhout. - Bruxelles : Editions de la Connaissance, 1949 (nr. 24) |
| 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. 98-99 (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 |
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