# Still-Life with Fruit and a Crystal Vase [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [AELST, Willem van]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 77 x 102 cm ## Commentary Still-Life with Fruit and a Crystal Vase c. 1650 Oil on canvas, 77 x 102 cm Galleria Palatina \(Palazzo Pitti\), Florence Van Aelst's still-lifes are infinitely various. Here, he perhaps suggests the category's classical roots: the Greek painter Zeuxis's grapes, so lifelike that birds tried to eat them, and the split pomegranate recalling Demeter's bargain, and announcing winter's return, as Proserpina descends to Hades once more. ## Related artworks - [Breakfast Piece]() - [Flower Still-Life]() - [Fruit Still-Life]() - [Hunting Still-Life \(detail\)]() - [Hunting Still-Life]() - [Still-Life of Dead Birds and Hunting Weapons]() - [Still-Life of Fruit]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life with a Basket of Fruit on a Marble Ledge]() - [Still-Life with Armour]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()