Stilleven met gebak (Still Life with Pastries)

A feast of cakes and pastries, a strawberry slice with pink and cream layers, a domed snowball, cream puffs, a muffin and rolled wafers, heaped on white linen. Wiedijk lavishes the precision the Golden Age saved for silver on whipped cream and chocolate glaze. The result is pure indulgence, a celebration of how well paint can mimic sugar.