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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Jacob Marrel was born in Germany in Frankenthal in 1613 or 1614 and trained in Frankfurt-am-Main with Georg Flegel, at this time one of Europe's finest still life painters. In the early 1630s he moved to Utrecht and in the late 1640s Marrel came under the influence of Jan Davidsz de Heem, copying his work and even signing it in his name. This painting is a copy of a work by De Heem in the Stiftung preußischer Kulturbesitz, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, painted around 1646. It originally bore De Heem's signature until it was cleaned and Marrel's signature revealed below stating that it is a copy. This kind of picture was known by the Dutch as pronkstilleven which means show piece'. The luxurious objects depicted in this work symbolised wealth and status. Oranges and lemons had to come from the Mediterranean under treacherous conditions; other items such as the elaborate silver objects and the satin cloth were also immensely expensive. | Subjects: | still life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Marrel, Jacob (German painter, 1614-1681) Æ After Heem, Jan Davidsz. de (Dutch painter, born 1606, died 1683 or 1684) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8864... | Go to resource |
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