Peaches, grapes, nectarines, strawberries, cherries, corn, a pomegranate and other fruit hanging from a blue ribbon in a niche

An important Antwerp still-life painter, Joris van Son was influenced by Jan Davidsz. de Heem. His works were praised by the biographer Arnold Houbraken (Der groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen, 1718) and the poet Cornelis de Bie, who wrote that his fruits were so naturalistic that they would tempt a pregnant woman -- underscoring the connotations of fecundity and prosperity symbolically alluded to by works such as the present.