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Still Life with Cheese

Food is arranged here on a costly damask tablecloth: fruit, bread, cheese. In the 17th century, this kind of painting was known as a ‘breakfast’. Vivid colours contrast with each other. Each item is carefully placed. And by viewing the table from a high angle, Van Dijck ensured that no object was obscured. This increases the sense of recession in the painting....
c. 1615
Oil on panel
82.2 x 111.2cm
SK-A-4821
Image and text courtesy of Rijksmuseum, 2019

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