
06/06/2025
🍸"Glasses in a Basket" a Baroque-era still life by the Alsatian painter Sebastian Stoskopff from 1644.
✒️ From Stoskopff's Wikipedia articel:
"Still lifes depicting glassware had been pioneered by the painter Georg Flegel, but Stoskopff perfected the genre by concentrating essentially on the transparency and translucency. While [Glasses in Basket] depicts luxury glassware, other paintings sometimes depict ordinary drinking glasses. The broken glass alludes to the frailty of existence and serves as a Memento mori."
🖼 The oil painting can today be seen the Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame of Strasbourg. Picture from Wikipedia Commons.