1630
oil
panel
From the collection of Norton Simon Museum
Still Life with Fruits and Flowers is a 1630 oil by Balthasar van der Ast, a Dutch Golden Age work, depicting Flower, held at Norton Simon Museum.
This painting shows a table with a large plate of fruit, including grapes, apples, and pears. There are also flowers in a vase on the left side of the table. The background is dark, which makes the fruit and flowers stand out. The fruit and flowers are arranged in a way that looks natural, as if they were just placed on the table. The colors of the fruit and flowers are bright and vivid, which makes the painting feel lively. If you want to see more paintings like this, you could look up the artist Balthasar van der Ast.
Balthasar van der Ast (Middelburg, 1593/94 – Delft, 7 March 1657) was a Dutch Golden Age painter who specialized in still lifes of flowers and fruit, as well as painting a number of remarkable shell still lifes; he is…
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