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Still Life with Oysters

Jacob Foppens van Es (c.1596–1666)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Still Life with Oysters

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Van Es spent his entire life in Antwerp although he is said to have visited Rome in 1636. He seems to have worked exclusively as a painter of still life. Paintings of foodstuffs were his speciality. This shows a relatively modest meal with expensive accessories: a blue and white Wan-li porcelain plate from China, a Venetian-style drinking glass and an ivory-handled knife. The glass reappears in a number of van Es's paintings.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Title

Still Life with Oysters

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 33 x W 47 cm

Accession number

WA1940.2.26

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward, 1939

Work type

Painting

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Jacob Foppens van Es

c.1596–1666

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