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Still Life with Meat, Fish, Vegetables, and Fruit
About the Artwork
Jacob van Hulsdonck depicted a colorful array of foods, and tablewares ranging from an earthenware trencher to delicate Chinese porcelain—an expensive luxury made possible by international trade. For seventeenth-century viewers, the quantity and variety of foods would have represented a utopian world without scarcity or hunger. Partially eaten food and an overturned glass suggest that diners have just departed, leaving insects to explore the remains.
Provenance
by 1809: Johann Melchior Edler von Birkenstock [1738–1809], Vienna 1811: (Artaria, Vienna, Johan Melchior Edler von Birkenstock sale, March 1811, lot 387 [not sold]) c. 1811: Antonia (Anthonie) Brentano (née von Birkenstock) [1780–1869], Frankfurt Kohlbacher, Frankfurt, Antonia von Brentano sale, April 4–6, 1870, lot 29 (purchased by seller's grandson, Emil Georg von Brentano) Emil Georg von Brentano [1845–1890], Frankfurt Presumably by descent to Franz Anton Johann von Brentano (1882–1940), Frankfurt Franz Anton Johann von Brentano and Marga Luise von Brentano [née von Heister; d. 1964] By descent to Bettina Birstein [née von Brentano; d. 1978] By descent to Hiltrud Michaeli (née Birstein), Saarbrücken 2012: (Sotheby's, London, December 5, 2012, lot 10 [as “The Property of a Lady”]) (Johnny van Haeften, London)
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jacob van Hulsdonck (Flemish, 1582–1647)
- Date
- c. 1615–20
- Medium
- Oil on panel, the reverse prepared with gesso
- Dimensions
- 71.5 x 104 cm (28 1/8 x 40 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of Janice Hammond and Edward Hemmelgarn
- Accession no.
- 2018.258
More by Jacob van Hulsdonck in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009380
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