HEEM, Jan Davidsz. de
(b. 1606, Utrecht, d. 1684, Antwerpen)

Still-Life: A Banqueting Scene (detail)

c. 1639
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

On the near corner of the table, a bunch of purple grapes and a pewter plate with lemons (sliced, peeled, and whole) are shown in front of a pewter spouted flagon, of a Dutch type common in the first half of the seventeenth century. The plate of lemons, the silver-gilt covered goblet, and vague impressions of a room with bright windows are skillfully reflected in the tankard.