Flemish School 17th Century, Kitchen Still Life, Oil On Canvas Framed

The composition presents on a table, in the center a plucked chicken, flanked by a few birds hanging at the top right; on the right side, a bunch of carrots; on the left side a bunch of asparagus and a salad, the skin of the chicken and the bright colors create a chromatic contrast with the dark-toned background. Flemish School of the 17th century where we see the emergence of the realist classic which has its source in the United Provinces, a Protestant, bourgeois and merchant country. The Calvinist church suppresses painting in churches. Painters specialize in small-format paintings for a bourgeois clientele. Materialist conception of art (no religious ideal or classical Beauty) tending towards verism (it is not much of an imaginative painting), still life is now part of it. Oil painting on canvas Large frame more recent frame in waxed wood