Still Life with Salted Herrings

The Czech painter of the High Baroque period, Jan Kašpar Hirschely, was one of the major representatives of the popular still-life genre of the time. In his works, he followed in the footsteps of his teacher, Jan Vojtěch Angermayer, who was, among other things, a collaborator of the portrait master Petr Brandl. Similar to the still lifes of Dutch painters, we can find in Hirschely's paintings detailed rendering of individual materials and light reflections, thanks to which the painted scene becomes an illusion of reality.