Still-Life
by HEDA, Willem Claesz., Oil on oak panel, 53 x 67 cm
This signed and dated still-life of oysters, a nautilus cup, a roemer, lemon and other objects is a mature work by Heda, incorporating several of the objects and props that fill a number of works from preceding years, such as the elaborate mother-of-pearl nautilus cup. In late works such as this Heda has clearly abandoned the monochrome banketjes that dominated his youth and early maturity, towards the more sumptuous pronk still-lifes popularised by Jan Davidsz. de Heem and Willem Kalf.