Banquet Still Life with a View onto a Landscape

Two crabs appear to meet the viewer’s gaze in this lush banquet scene filled with delightful details. A cherry teeters on the table’s edge at left, where an ebony knife adorned with silver inlay has just separated a lemon from its rind, forming a delicate spiral. The artist’s remarkable realism extends to the stippled yellow paint emulating the fruit’s dimpled, waxy surface texture. Demonstrating his skill across genres, he offers a sneak peek of landscape through an open window.