BARRERA, Francisco
(b. 1595, Madrid, d. 1658, Madrid)

Still-Life

c. 1640
Oil on canvas, 104 x 102 cm
Private collection

This mature work is a still-life of fish suspended from hooks, together with bowls of fish on raised ledges, with eels and other fish, eggs, cheese, an orange, ceramic pots, a pestle and mortar and a cooking pot, all arranged upon a stone top.