Still Life with Shells and a Chip-Wood Box
Sebastian Stoskopff
late 1620s · Oil on canvas · European Paintings
A French-speaking Lutheran from Strasbourg, Stoskopff worked intermittently in Paris from 1622 to 1641. This spare painting combines a chip-wood box containing dried fruit and fish, a commonplace object in Stoskopff’s time, with costly shells harvested from the Indian and Pacific oceans. Such shells were objects of fascination and sought-after collector’s items at a time of expanding European colonialism in Asia.
- Artist
- Sebastian Stoskopff
- Date
- late 1620s
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- Wrightsman Fund, 2002
