Still-life with Wine Glass and Silver Bowl

It is worth noting that in this monochromatic 'banketje'(banquet) still life, shades of gray, green and silver dominate, and the elements of the painting are reduced to a small number of vessels. Thus, composition of the painting is determined by an overturned silver goblet, a half empty wine glass, and two pewter plates. Although this is a so-called breakfast still life (an onbijtje), hardly any food is shown. Only sparse left over of a meal, a single olive on a plate, forms a kind of optical barrier between a hollow foot of the goblet and the plate that reflects it. Unlike overabundance of food in earlier Flemish still lifes, this painting emphasizes a refinement of taste. Naive consumerism has been replaced by aesthetic sublimation under Protestant influence of introspection and asceticism.