Willem Claesz Heda

Still Life with a Roemer and Watch

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Willem Claesz Heda
Still Life with a Roemer and Watch

On view in Room 16

The Haarlem painter Heda specialised in ‘ontbijtjes’ and ‘banketjes’ (breakfast and banquet pieces). He worked mainly in brown and grey tints. These sober colours created unity in the composition and blended together the separate components: a fish with capers and lemon, a bread roll, some hazelnuts, wine glasses and a silver drinking cup.

Heda paid a lot of attention to the reflection of light on the various objects, giving each material its own particular sheen. He was a master of this technique.

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Still Life with a Roemer and Watch

On view in Room 16

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General information
Willem Claesz Heda (Haarlem c. 1596 - 1680 Haarlem)
Still Life with a Roemer and Watch
painting
596
Room 16
Material and technical details
oil
panel
46 x 69.2 cm
Inscriptions
lower left, on the edge of the table: .Heda. / 1629
remains of a second signature on the blade of the knife

Provenance

H. Gildemeester, Amsterdam, 1894; purchased, 1895