Gallery Notes

Positioned next to a bunch of grapes and vine leaves, two boiled lobsters with a cut and peeled lemon and a peach on a pewter plate produce complex reflections in Jan Davidsz. De Heem’s early banketje (banquet piece). With its restrained colours and thinly applied paint, this beautiful still life on an oak panel belongs to a scarce group of recorded and dated works from the period when De Heem lived in Leiden before he moved to Antwerp in the mid-1630s where he became known for his flamboyant and Baroque flower bouquets...