# Still-Life with Glasses and Bottles [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [STOSKOPFF, Sébastien]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 122 x 99 cm ## Commentary Stosskopf, who was born in Alsace and learned to paint from the Antwerp-born still life artist Daniel Soreau in the Flemish painters' colony at Hanau, specialized above all in glass still-lifes with delicate light effects. Joachim von Sandrart was to point out in 1675 that Stosskopf had painted 'many beautiful and outstanding works of still objects, such as tables and silver crockery'. This painting shows a large number of thin, Venetian-style glasses in a wicker basket. Surrounded by other glass, clay and china vessels the basket, which is parallel to the edge of the painting, has been placed on a brilliantly white tablecloth that hangs down over the edge and forms a sharp contrast to the dark background. Stosskopf may well have depicted the costly drinking vessels of an aristocratic patron. ## Related artworks - [Books and a Candle]() - [Large Still-Life]() - [Still-Life of Glasses in a Basket \(detail\)]() - [Still-Life of Glasses in a Basket]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life with Statuette and Shells]() - [Summer or the Five Senses]() - [The Four Elements]() - [The Great Vanity Still-life \(detail\)]() - [The Great Vanity Still-Life]() - [Vanitas with a Vase of Theriac]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()