Artist: Pieter Claesz Soutman
Date: 1645
Size: 53 x 44 cm
Technique: Oil On Panel
In addition to the fairly complex still lifes and banquet pieces that Pieter Claesz produced in the 1620s there are also several simple and smaller works from the same period with only a few objects, such as a glass, a knife, a small loaf of bread or a lemon. In the 1630s, his compositions became larger, verging on the monumental. They are broadly painted with a limited palette in which greens, browns and white predominate, with just the occasional colour accent. Around 1635, he began painting tall upright compositions in addition to horizontal ones, and in them the scene is almost always dominated by a large green rummer of wine.4 This breakfast piece on the edge of a table covered with a white tablecloth consists of a small loaf of bread and a piece of salmon, both on pewter plates, a pewter salt-cellar, a knife and the distinctive rummer with the reflection of the studio window. This simple composition is closely related to a number of paintings by Claesz that are dated between 1640 and 1643,5 which makes it likely that this one dates from the same period. There are one or more copies of this work.6 Jan Piet Filedt Kok, 2007 See Bibliography and Rijksmuseum painting catalogues See Key to abbreviations and Acknowledgements This entry was published in J. Bikker (ed.), Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, I: Artists Born between 1570 and 1600, coll. cat. Amsterdam 2007, no. 45.
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