Still life with game fowl - cotan

Height: 68 cm Museo del Prado Inventory. Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid , Spain. Museo de la Trinidad, Pintura , catalogue : Inv. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domain Public domain false false. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

Though, he was a distinguished artist, there are only few of his paintings that survived. He was early inspired by the spirit of Catholic mysticism that dominated the intellectual life of Toledo at the time and was taught my the still-life painter Blas del Prado.

The arrangement of fruits and vegetables were enriched in value by its illusionistic, spare composition. Because of the dark background we are pushed into the full concentration on what at the front is and the clarity of it seems almost geometric. Still-Life with Game, Vegetable and Fruit, , oil on canvas, 68 x 89 cm. Still-Life with Game Fowl, , oil on canvas, 68 x 89 cm. Still-life, , oil on canvas. The first thing that grabs my attention is obviously the black background because this is what makes the artist outstanding.

Clara Peeters. Still Life with a Dead Stag Still Life with Fruit, Game and Animals Fruit Piece Jan van Huysum NL. Small music. Janda Zdenek CZ.

Still Life with Fruit The Annunciation to the Shepherds Jacopo Bassano IT. A Walk in the Garden. Camille Collins US. Still Life with Peacocks Rembrandt NL. These still-lifes were defined by highly ordered figures [2] and always consisted of a window which framed the items that he painted [3]. The window which he consistently depicts in his still life would have been a functioning part of a Spanish house. This window was known as a canarero [4] and would have been a cool place where vegetables and fowl could be kept before it was to be prepared and cooked so they would not spoil.

In some of his images he used a string to hang the fruits, vegetables and fowl. This hanging of food would have been a common practice during the time as it protected the food from bruising and from pests. This background created a sense of depth, pushing backwards into the recesses of the window while effectively pushing the items themselves forward to the very front of the canvas [3]. Upon resigning from secular life to becoming a monk an inventory of his positions was take, in this inventory 12 still-lifes were recorded.

At least two of which are accounted for today.