Still-Life

This monochrome ‘banketje still-life’ depicts a gilt cup, a silver tazza, glasses and pewter plates with a pie, peeled lemon and nuts, all upon a draped table. Heda first began to paint such still-lifes in the early 1630s, and their constituent parts are remarkably consistent: simple groups of objects, typically glass and silverware as here, accompanied by lemons and other food, all placed in close relationship to one another upon a simply draped table.