Still Life with Oysters Size:small Decorated leather tent hanging made

Decorated leather tent hanging made from four white-tailed deer hides sewn together with sinew thread

while this painting could have been made for a different patron

His arm rests on an ornate chair with carved and inlaid decoration

the original was in the della Valle collection in Rome in 1561

Still Life with Oysters Size:small Decorated leather tent hanging madeVan Es spent his entire life in Antwerp although he is said to have visited Rome in 1636. He seems to have worked exclusively as a painter of still life. Paintings of foodstuffs were his speciality. This shows a relatively modest meal with expensive accessories: a blue and white Wan li porcelain plate from China, a Venetian style drinking glass and an ivory handled knife. The glass reappears in a number of van Es's paintings.