Jan Bogaerts trained in the art academies of ‘s-Hertogenbosch and Antwerp. After some years of painting dreamy figural compositions and landscapes of fairy-tale parks with castles, Bogaerts took up still lifes, which became his predominant subject matter. Working in a style approaching that of photographic realism – his work has been described as representing a precursor to hyperrealism – Bogaerts’s compositions, often brilliantly yet harmoniously colored, as in the present example, convey a sense of quietude and are characterized by an evocative sense of timelessness.