Still Life with Chickens and Eggs
1650
unspecified
From the collection of Rijksmuseum
1650
unspecified
From the collection of Rijksmuseum
Still Life with Chickens and Eggs is a 1650 unspecified by Giovanni Battista Recco, a Early Baroque Italian work, held at Rijksmuseum.
You see two dead chickens tied by their feet on a stone slab, eggs, a sausage, two dead birds hanging above, and two leather wine flasks. The chickens are painted with careful folds of feathers and pink skin showing through. Someone took time to show the way light catches each egg. It feels like a quiet record of a meal that hasn’t happened yet. To see more paintings like this one, visit the Rijksmuseum.
Giovanni Battista Recco (1615–1660) was an artist, born in Naples.
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