
Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain
Adriaen van der SpeltFrans van Mieris

Baroque Painter · Active 1658 – 1658
Paintale's collection includes 1 paintings attributed to Adriaen van der SpeltFrans van Mieris, a figure of the Baroque period whose recurring subjects — daily life — trace a consistent set of preoccupations across a career's worth of commissions.
Where to see the work: Art Institute of Chicago.
Adriaen van der SpeltFrans van Mieris's surviving output sits squarely within the Baroque period, and the paintings collected here return repeatedly to daily life. Read together, they trace how one artist worked through the same problems of figure, light, and narrative weight that defined the period.
Adriaen van der SpeltFrans van Mieris's paintings have found permanent homes at institutions such as Art Institute of Chicago. Every entry on Paintale digs into how each piece was made, what it depicts, and how it has been read and re-read since it left the studio.
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