Gooseberries on a Table

Adriaen Coorte worked in Middelburg, a wealthy Dutch port that fostered a poetic and scientific study of the natural world. Gooseberries were a modest local pleasure, picked wild, though Dutch gardeners of the 1600s were the first to cultivate them. Strong light gives the small plant a stark grandeur, and the dark background brings out the translucent fruit, its skin on the verge of bursting. Painted in 1701.

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