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Flowers and fruit in a host of colours are set splendidly against the dark background. A window not in the picture frame is reflected in the round curve of the roemer. The rose petals are soft, the flesh of the lemon glistens and the peel feels bumpy. Gillis van Hulsdonck has rendered the various textures magnificently.
Around 1655, Van Hulsdonck moved from Antwerp to Amsterdam. In the Northern Netherlands he came under the influence of the famous still-life artist Willem Kalf. Yet unlike the latter, Van Hulsdonck included flowers in his compositions. This shows the influence of Ambrosius Bosschaert, with whom Van Hulsdonck had served his apprenticeship in Antwerp.
Gillis van Hulsdonck is considered one of the few Intimists among the still-life artists of the latter half of the seventeenth century.

Works by Gillis van Hulsdonck can be seen at Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung in Munich and National Museum in Stockholm.