Still Life: Candy and Clay

Continuing the practice of still lifes by Baltazar Gomes Figueira, her father, Josefa de Óbidos, who introduced the genre into Portuguese painting, signs this work in Óbidos in 1676. In the composition, following a horizontal ordering scheme in parallel to the table and using a system of collecting unique elements, it displays a large set of objects - boxes, a jug, a clay jar, a dishwashing cup, …