Peerless Fruit or Offering Tray (Morikago)

The still life, a pictorial representation of foodstuffs, objects or inanimate objects, was one of the artistic genres that became fully independent in the 17th century. The origin...

In 1899, Gauguin's mistress, Pahura, gave birth to a son, who gave the artist a new lease on life. After months of inaction due to poverty and ill health, Gauguin began to paint ag...

Two fruit studies: a grape with green fruit, a round red fruit and an oval blue-violet fruit at the top; a grape with green fruit and a round red-yellow fruit at the bottom...

Willem van Aelst trained with his uncle Evert van Aelst in his native city of Delft and opted to specialise in still-life painting. At the age of eighteen he left Holland and settl...