HEEM, Jan Davidsz. de
(b. 1606, Utrecht, d. 1684, Antwerpen)

Still-Life

1653
Oil on canvas, 46 x 75 cm
Private collection

The still-life depicts white and blue grapes, peaches, cherries, a fig, an ear of wheat, oak leaf and acorns, a sweet chestnut, filbert nuts, hawk-weed, a medlar, a garden tiger moth, together with borage, and other flowers, all against a decorative sculpted background with a scorpion.

Originally the painting was larger in size along the top, it is signed and dated lower centre.