Still life with Cranach's Madonna

On a wooden shelf against a pale wall stand a corked bottle of red liquid and three apples, one pale and two red; above them, a reproduction of a Renaissance Madonna and Child under an apple bough is clipped to the wall beside a heavy green curtain, with a small butterfly resting nearby.

Warm honey-toned wood contrasts with the cool dark green drapery and the saturated red of bottle and fruit; even light and crisp, meticulous realism give every surface, from glass to velvet, a tactile sheen, producing a quiet, contemplative stillness.