Still Life with Fowl
Willem van Aelst
1658
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
78.5; 8; 95
About this artwork
drager: hoogte 95 cm x breedte 78,5 cm
Art Historical Context
Willem van Aelst's *Still Life with Fowl (1658), an oil on canvas measuring 95 cm high by 78.5 cm wide, captures opulent still life tradition of the Dutch Golden Age. Housed in the Rijks, this work showcases van Aelst's as a leading specialist in the genre, particularly *pronkstilleven*—sumptuous arrangements of game, fruits, and luxurious objects that celebrated the era's prosperity amid the Dutch Republic's economic boom from trade and colonial ventures. Aelst, who trained in Delft and later worked in Amsterdam and abroad, was renowned for his trompe-l'œil realism, rendering feathers, fur,...