Keywords: Breakfast Piece with Cheese and Goblet (Jacob Fopsen van Es) - Nationalmuseum - 18149.tif Artwork Creator Jacob Foppens van Es Breakfast Piece with Cheese and Goblet Elegantly laid tables are a constant theme in Van Es s still life paintings Here everything is carefully arranged In the middle is a large cheese reflected in a shiny pewter bowl Among bread oranges and slices of ham various expensive items are visible a Chinese bowl Venetian glassware a knife with an ivory handle and a nautilus trophy These kinds of depictions of luxury and opulence have often been interpreted as having some sort of moralizing import But perhaps the artist just wanted to show off his dazzling illusionistic technique Elegant dukade bord Àr det stÄende temat i van Es stillebenmÄleri HÀr Àr allt omsorgsfullt arrangerat I mitten ligger en stor ost och speglar sig i ett blankt tennfat Bland bröd apelsiner och skinkskivor syns dyrbara husgerÄd en kinesisk skÄl venetianska glas en kniv med elfenbenshandtag och en nautiluspokal I den hÀr typen av skildringar av lyx och överdÄd har man ofta tolkat in olika moraliserande betydelser Men kanske ville konstnÀren bara briljera med sin blÀndande illusionistiska teknik header Elegantly laid tables are a constant theme in Van Es s still life paintings Here everything is carefully arranged In the middle is a large cheese reflected in a shiny pewter bowl Among bread oranges and slices of ham various expensive items are visible a Chinese bowl Venetian glassware a knife with an ivory handle and a nautilus trophy These kinds of depictions of luxury and opulence have often been interpreted as having some sort of moralizing import But perhaps the artist just wanted to show off his dazzling illusionistic technique Elegant dukade bord Àr det stÄende temat i van Es stillebenmÄleri HÀr Àr allt omsorgsfullt arrangerat I mitten ligger en stor ost och speglar sig i ett blankt tennfat Bland bröd apelsiner och skinkskivor syns dyrbara husgerÄd en kinesisk skÄl venetianska glas en kniv med elfenbenshandtag och en nautiluspokal I den hÀr typen av skildringar av lyx och överdÄd har man ofta tolkat in olika moraliserande betydelser Men kanske ville konstnÀren bara briljera med sin blÀndande illusionistiska teknik date Oil on wood Olja pÄ trÀ Size cm 84 50 Framed Size cm 106 73 6 Institution Nationalmuseum Stockholm Signerad Jaces van Es accession number 18149 NM 1146 place of creation Hans Thorwid / Nationalmuseum Nationalmuseum Stockholm cooperation project Licensed-PD-Art PD-old-auto PD-Nationalmuseum_Stockholm 1666 Media contributed by Nationalmuseum Stockholm 2016-10 Paintings in the Nationalmuseum Stockholm Jacob Foppens van Es |