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Cookmaid with Still Life of Fruit and Vegetables
Sir Nathaniel Bacon, 1620–1627
This work epitomises fecundity and abundance. The maid's cleavage echoes the opened melon the table. The genre of the work derives from the Low Countries and no other English artist of the period explored the genre. The picture combines vegetables and fruit that would have matured at differing times of the year, although all of them were being grown in England at this period.
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Title of artwork, date
Cookmaid with Still Life of Fruit and Vegetables, 1620–1627
Date supported
1995
Medium and material
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
151 x 247 cm
Grant
20000
Total cost
264218
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