Still life with wineglass, flute, glass, earthenware jug and pipes

Jan Jansz van de Velde's 1651 painting Still life with wineglass, flute, glass, earthenware jug and pipes is catalogued in the Rijksmuseum collection and exemplifies Dutch Golden Age still-life genre, reflecting the artist's specialization in detailed compositions of domestic objects.

Scholarship highlights the work's technical precision and its role within van de Velde's oeuvre, situating it amid a broader tradition of Dutch still-life painting that emphasized realism and symbolic representation of material wealth.

The painting's provenance across multiple institutional holdings, including the Rijksmuseum and Führermuseum, underscores its recognized significance within art-historical narratives of 17th-century Dutch art.

The painting's presence in major institutional collections, including the Rijksmuseum and Führermuseum, cemented its scholarly recognition. Its inclusion in the Munich Central Collecting Point further elevated its status within Dutch still-life studies. Contemporary art historians reference the work as a key example of mid-17th-century compositional balance, particularly in the treatment of reflective surfaces and layered still-life elements.

This 1651 oil painting by Jan Jansz van de Velde presents a still life composition on a darkened tabletop. Everyday objects, glassware, ceramics, and smoking paraphernalia, are arranged without narrative or human presence. The work belongs to the Rijksmuseum’s collection, where it exemplifies the Dutch still life tradition of the mid-seventeenth century.

The tableau assembles utilitarian items: a rummer, a silver flute, an earthenware jug adorned with a painted horse, a blue-and-white bowl of plums, oysters, a pipe, and a lemon. Such groupings often carried subtle moral or temporal associations, though the painting’s primary focus remains the objects themselves rather than overt symbolism.