Still life - Collections

Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century,[1] during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for Dutch independence.

Jan Brueghel the Elder

Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625), Bouquet (1599). Some of the earliest examples of still life were paintings of flowers by Netherlandish Renaissance painters. Still-life painting (including vanitas), as a particular genre, achieved its greatest importance in the Golden Age of Netherlandish art (ca. 1500s–1600s). The English term still life derives from the Dutch word stilleven.

Giovanna Garzoni

Giovanna Garzoni (1600–1670), Still Life with Bowl of Citrons (1640), tempera on vellum, Getty Museum, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California

Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts

Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts (c. 1660–1683), Trompe l'oeil (c. 1680), Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Francisco de Zurbarán

Francisco de Zurbarán was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname Spanish Caravaggio, owing to the forceful, realistic use of chiaroscuro in which he excelled.More at Wikipedia

Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Game Fowl, Vegetables and Fruits (1602), Museo del Prado Madrid

Jan Jansz. Treck

Jan Jansz. Treck (1606–1652), Still Life Pewter Jug and Two Porcelain Plates (1645)

Treck was a still-life painter who was born and worked in Amsterdam. His carefully composed, restrained still lifes are closely related to those of Jan Jansz den Uyl the Elder (1595/6 - 1640) who was Treck's brother-in-law and may also have been his teacher. Like den Uyl's, Treck's still lifes are a development of the style of the pioneering Haarlem still-life painters, Pieter Claesz. and Willem Heda.

Samuel van Hoogstraten

Feigned Letter Rack with Writing Implements (c. 1655)

Lubin Baugin

Lubin Baugin about 1612 - 1663 He was sometimes called 'Le Petit Guide' after Guido Reni as he was influenced by Reni after seeing his work while on a visit to Italy. Baugin was also influenced by a number of other Italian painters, particularly Correggio and Parmigianino.

Willem Claeszoon Heda

Willem Claeszoon Heda (1594-1680), Still Life with Pie, Silver Ewer and Crab (1658)

The painting is a so-called sumptuous or luxurious still-life. Heda's still-lifes gradually became fuller after 1640: the number of objects grew and they stood closer together. The colours also became richer. Heda was a master at rendering different reflections of light.

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Metal Plate with Peaches and Vine Leaves (1591–94), panel, 21 x 30 cm, his only known still life

Pieter Claesz

Pieter Claesz (1597–1660), Still life with Musical Instruments (1623)

Pieter Claesz (c.1597–1660), Still Life (1623)

Pieter Claesz (c. 1597–1660), Still Life with Salt Tub

Fede Galizia (1578–1630)

Maiolica Basket of Fruit (c. 1610), private collection

George Flegel

George Flegel (1566–1638), Still-Life with Bread and Confectionery, 1630

Luis Egidio Meléndez (1716-1780)

Luis Egidio Meléndez was a Spanish painter. Though he received little acclaim during his lifetime and died in poverty, Meléndez is recognised as the greatest Spanish still-life painter of the 18th century.

Caravaggio

Basket of Fruit (c.1599) is a still life painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), which hangs in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Ambrosian Library), Milan.

Still Life with Fruit on a Stone Ledge is a painting attributed to the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light, and granular impasto characterise his work.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Siméon_Chardin

Anne Vallayer-Coster

Anne Vallayer-Coster, The Attributes of Music (c. 1770)

Anne Vallayer-Coster, Still Life With Lobster (c. 1781)

Anne Vallayer-Coster, The Attributes of Painting (c. 1769)

Henri Fantin-Latour

Henri Fantin-Latour, (1836–1904), White Roses, Chrysanthemums in a Vase, Peaches and Grapes on a Table with a White Tablecloth (1867)

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Although still life was often looked down upon and seen as less important than landscape, portrait and figure painting, it has always been popular and attracted very powerful artists. Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin and Luis Egidio Meléndez were able to use contrasting light with strong highlights and murky backgrounds, as a stage setting for the presentation of texture and the depiction of different surfaces.

These painting effects, used with careful arrangements and viewpoints gave mundane and boring household items the appearance of large scale and memorable images.

In the early Twentieth Century, Paul Cezanne produced still life paintings which show him scrutinising objects and playing with the traditional language of painting, flattening space and looking at objects from different viewpoints in one painting in a way that has often been described as leading to the Cubist still life paintings of Braque and Picasso.

More recently, Lisa Milroy produced object paintings in which objects seemed to be placed on imaginary shelves in a white floating space. With these paintings, she seemed to be recalling the idea of objects and their meanings rather than pointing to specific items as seen on a certain time and day. (This could be called ‘connotation’ rather than ‘denotation’).

More recently still, Hillary Daltrey has produced a series of large multi coloured lino cut images to evoke the grand tradition of still life in European painting.

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