Abraham Mignon / Still Life with Fruits, Foliage and Insects / n.d.

Abraham Mignon
Still Life with Fruits, Foliage and Insects
n.d.
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Creator Name: Mignon, Abraham
Creator Nationality: European; Dutch
Creator Role: painter
Creator Dates/Places: b. 1640 active 1679
Creator Name-CRT: Abraham Mignon
Title: Still Life with Fruits, Foliage and Insects
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1650
Creation End Date: 1679
Creation Date: n.d.
Object Type: Paintings
Classification Term: oil on panel
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: H.23 x W.19-1/2 in.
Inscriptions: SIGNATURE
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 87.4
Credit Line: Gift of Bruce B. Dayton
Rights: http://www.artsmia.org/restrictions.html
Context:

Still lifes often carried symbolic meanings for their original Dutch viewers. Here, the crowded display of fruit and insects testifies to the bounty of nature. The artist's virtuoso technique also reveals his desire to vie with the natural world and briefly halt time's passage by fixing these objects in paint. The sheer variety of natural organisms still fascinates. But the fruit has begun to rot, and the once-mighty oak tree shows signs of blight. The stone in the foreground has fallen from a once-perfect building, and the arch in the right background crumbles. Butterflies and caterpillars, traditional symbols of transcience, also allude to the impermanence of earthly things.

AMICA ID: MIA_.87.4
Component Measured: overall
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 2001
Media Metadata Rights: ?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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