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Paulus Theodorus van Brussel’s arrangement of fruit and flowers reveals the eighteenth-century taste for paintings depicting the exotic and expensive set in artful disarray against the faint background of a garden. It’s a celebration of the bounty of nature and is, at the same time, an appealing way of showing prize specimens. It also demonstrates his skill in painting texture. He has included poppies, hollyhocks and celosia, but the flowers – not as rare and pricey as they had been a century before the picture was painted – seem to take second place to the abundant fruits. These are mostly hothouse grown, and therefore costly: melons, black and translucent green grapes, peaches and a pineapple with its spiky crown at the top of the arrangement, almost seeming to float in space.
Title
Fruit and Flowers
Date
1789
Medium
Oil on mahogany
Measurements
H 78.4 x W 61 cm
Accession number
NG5800
Acquisition method
Presented by Frederick John Nettlefold, 1947
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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