# Ebony Veneered Cabinet \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [OOSTEN, Izaac van]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Wood, ebony, oil on panel ## Commentary Ebony Veneered Cabinet \(detail\) c. 1645 Wood, ebony, oil on panel Private collection This late Renaissance ebony veneered cabinet from Antwerp is decorated with village landscapes and scenes from daily life by Izaac van Oosten. It is an excellent example of the highly skilled furniture-making practice that flourished in seventeenth-century Antwerp. Cabinet makers employed skilled painters to complete their creations with small pictures. As the popularity of these intricate objects grew, so too did their decoration and the level of quality in the paintings. ## Related artworks - [Ebony Veneered Cabinet]() - [Extensive Landscape with Travellers on a Road]() - [Landscape]() - [Landscape]() - [Landscape with a Cavalry Group]() - [River Landscape]() - [Summer Landscape]() - [The Fall of Man]() - [Wooded Landscape]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()