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DiaporamaBasket of Fruits
1622
38.0 x 44.0 cm
A basket holding a pile of several kinds of fruit and two blue and white porcelain plates nearly fills this horizontal still life painting. More fruit is scattered around the smoke-gray ledge on which the basket sits, and the background is purple-tinged gray. The basket sits near the back edge of the ledge, and it has ribbed sides so pieces of round fruit, perhaps apples, are visible inside. Green, red, and purple grapes, green and orange grape leaves, apples, plums, apricots, an orange, and a quince are piled between the two blue-painted plates, which are propped in the basket at an angle to hold the fruit like cupped hands. More fruit, including plums, quince, cherries, and medlars, cover most of the ledge around the basket. The scene is lit from our left so the fruit casts shadows to our right. The artist signed the painting near the lower right corner, “B. vander. ast.”
Balthasar van der Ast (1593 – 1657)
Balthasar van der Ast (1593-1657) was a Dutch Golden Age painter renowned for exquisite still lifes of flowers, fruit & pioneering shell paintings. Explore his detailed works featuring insects and lizards – a key figure in 17th-century art!
About this artwork
- Title: Basket of Fruits
- Artist: Balthasar van der Ast
- Year: 1622
- Original dimensions: 38.0 x 44.0 cm
- Format: Landscape
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Main color: Phthalo Green
- Color intensity: Monochromatic
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