Still Life Paintings from the Netherlands 1550-1720.

About Still Life Paintings from the Netherlands 1550-1720

Still Life Paintings from the Netherlands 1550–1720, is a 1999 art exhibition catalog published for a jointly held exhibition by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and Cleveland Museum of Art. The catalog included detailed discussions of 80 paintings from various collection holders, that together give an overview of the best genres in Dutch still-life paintings, namely kitchen piece (keukenstuk), fruit still-life, (fruitstuk), floral still-life (blommetje), breakfast piece (ontbijtje), vanitas, hunting piece (jaagstuk), and show piece (pronkstilleven). The catalog was organized by type, but also loosely by time period, starting with the earliest works.