Hunt Still Life with a Velvet Bag on a Marble Ledge Willem van Aelst 1665

Hunt Still Life with a Velvet Bag on a Marble Ledge
Willem van Aelst 1665
From the collection of
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Details
Title: Hunt Still Life with a Velvet Bag on a Marble Ledge
Creator: Willem van Aelst
Date Created: c. 1665
Physical Dimensions: w54 x h67.3 cm (without frame)
Credit Line: Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, United States

Established in 1900, the MFAH is the largest cultural institution in the region. The majority of the museum's presentations take place on its main campus, which is located in the heart of Houston's Museum District and comprises the Audrey Jones Beck Building, the Caroline Wiess Law Building, the Glassell School of Art and the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden. The Beck and Law buildings are connected underground by the Wilson Tunnel, which features James Turrell's iconic installation The Light Inside (1999). Additional resources include a repertory cinema, two significant libraries, public archives and a state-of-the-art conservation and storage facility. Nearby, two remarkable house museums, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens and Rienzi, present collections of American and European decorative arts. The encyclopedic collections of the MFAH are especially strong in pre-Columbian and African gold; Renaissance and Baroque painting and sculpture; 19th- and 20th-century art; photography; and Latin American art. The MFAH is also home to the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA), a leading research institute for 20th-century Latin American and Latino art.

Willem van Aelst
May 16, 1627 - 1683

Willem van Aelst was a Dutch Golden Age artist who specialized in still-life painting with flowers or game.
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