2-975-435 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Still Life with Asparagus, 1697. Most of Coorte’s paintings are small, intimate still lifes. With their simple subjects - asparagus, or berries - his paintings contrast starkly with the magnificent, extravagant still lifes then in vogue. Those pictures are all about the profusion of valuable objects and foods, while here the emphasis is on the meticulous rendering of a single vegetable.