Still-life Paintings
19th Century Still-life Paintings
Oil
17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
19th Century Baroque Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Oil
Late 19th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Oil, Canvas, Board
19th Century Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil
19th Century Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil
Mid-19th Century Still-life Paintings
Oil
1890s Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1740s Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 17th Century Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Baroque Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Baroque Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
Late 19th Century Academic Still-life Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1870s Victorian Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Oak, Oil, Panel
1810s Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil
18th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Oil
18th Century Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Oil
Late 19th Century Academic Still-life Paintings
Oil
1850s Naturalistic Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Paper, Oil
1850s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil
1860s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century American Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Board
Mid-19th Century Dutch School Still-life Paintings
Oil
Late 19th Century Romantic Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Oil
Mid-19th Century Victorian Still-life Paintings
Watercolor
19th Century Victorian Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1680s Abstract Geometric Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1880s Academic Still-life Paintings
Oil
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Linen, Oil
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 18th Century Baroque Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Baroque Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Board
18th Century Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1890s Academic Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1680s Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1880s Academic Still-life Paintings
Oil
17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Oil
19th Century Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Academic Still-life Paintings
Oil
1890s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
19th Century Victorian Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Oil
Late 17th Century Other Art Style Still-life Paintings
Oil
Mid-19th Century Still-life Paintings
Oil
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
Late 19th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
Shop Still-Life Paintings on 1stDibs
Still-life paintings work as part of the decor in nearly every type of space.
Still-life art, which includes work produced in media such as painting, photography, video and more, is a popular genre in Western art. However, the depiction of still life in color goes back to Ancient Egypt, where paintings on the interior walls of tombs portrayed the objects — such as food — that a person would take into the afterlife. Ancient Greek and Roman mosaics and pottery also often depicted food. Indeed, still-life paintings frequently feature food, flowers or man-made objects. By definition, still-life art represents anything that is considered inanimate.
During the Middle Ages, the still life genre was adapted by artists who illustrated religious manuscripts. A common theme of these paintings is the reminder that life is fleeting. This is especially true of vanitas, a kind of still life with roots in the Netherlands during the 17th century, which was built on themes such as death and decay and featured skulls and objects such as rotten fruit. In northern Europe during the 1600s, painters consulted botanical texts to accurately depict the flowers and plants that were the subject of their work.
Leonardo da Vinci’s penchant for observing phenomena in nature and filling notebooks with drawings and notes helped him improve as an artist of still-life paintings. Vincent van Gogh, an artist who made a couple of the most expensive paintings ever sold, carried out rich experiments with color over the course of painting hundreds of still lifes, and we can argue that Campbell’s Soup Cans (1961–62) by Andy Warhol counts as still-life art.
While early examples were primarily figurative, you can find still lifes that belong to different schools and styles of painting, such as Cubism, Impressionism and contemporary art.
As part of the wall decor in your living room, dining room or elsewhere, a still-life painting can look sophisticated alongside your well-curated decorative objects and can help set the mood in a space.
When shopping for a still-life painting, think about how it makes you feel and how the artist chose to represent its subject. When buying any art for your home, choose pieces that you connect with. If you’re shopping online, read the description of the work to learn about the artist and check the price and shipping information. Make sure that the works you choose complement or relate to your overall theme and furniture style. Artwork can either fit into your room’s color scheme or serve as an accent piece. Introduce new textures to a space by choosing an oil still-life painting.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of still-life paintings in a wide range of styles and subject matter.