Still Life with Ostrich Egg Cup and the Whitfield Heirlooms
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
65.4 × 75.6 cm (25 3/4 × 29 3/4 in.); Framed: 77.2 × 88.3 × 4.5 cm (30 3/8 × 34 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
198905
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Trained in the Dutch Republic before making his career in London, Pieter van Roestraeten specialized in compositions populated with luxury goods crafted from rare, imported materials like those seen here. On the right stands a lidded agate cup with detailed silver mounts, counterbalanced to the left of the grouping by another cup, which has been overturned to reveal its mother-of-pearl lining. A piece of valuable and versatile coral, sourced from the coasts of Italy and France, dangles over the ...