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Still Life of Fruit

Willem van Aelst (1627–after 1687)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Still Life of Fruit

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The existence of a copy of this painting (last recorded in a sale in Cologne in 1933) with wider margins, particularly along the upper edge, suggests that the Oxford painting has been cut down on all sides. It probably dates from a time close to a very similar painting of peaches in Budapest dated 1667. Velvet cloths, similarly painted, are found in paintings by van Aelst dating from between 1667 and 1674.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Title

Still Life of Fruit

Date

c. 1667

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 47 x W 39 cm

Accession number

WA1940.2.4

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward, 1939

Work type

Painting

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Willem van Aelst

1627–after 1687

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