3-098-549 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Still life with kitchen containers and asparagus, 1652. The placement of the components and the objects themselves, made of different materials - ranging from refined silver and crystal to copper, tin, bronze, and clay - more appropriate, due to their utilitarian nature, roughness, or coarseness, for kitchens than for drawing rooms, give the work the feel of folk art. There are skinned animals ready for stews; magnificent bunches of asparagus destined for the same purpose; as well as goblets, jugs, a mortar, cauldrons, tankards and glasses.