This early 20th-century Dutch school still life depicts a jug, tray and four apples in harmonious muted tones. The textures are rendered skilfully and the light carefully observed. Note the area of light hitting mid-jug, which arrives from our left. It holds the piece together - a visual anchor for the imagination.

The painting is signed in the lower left, inscribed on the reverse, and housed within a later frame.

Medium: Oil on canvas
Overall size: 21” x 20” / 53cm x 51cm
Year of creation: c. 1917
Condition: Canvas relined. One patched repair. Craquelure but the paint is stable.