Xia Erdan has made great achievements in still life painting. It can be said that he is an unpretentious still life painter. In the era of Louis XV, when everything was luxurious, Xia Erdan's solemn still life paintings became more and more beautiful, which made people get a little natural and real emotion in a society full of emptiness and depravity. The painter's eyes quietly stared at the dishes, fish, fruits, bread and other extremely ordinary things, and explored the deep beauty from them. Representative works include Musical Instrument, Cupboard, Cake, Still Life with Goblet and so on. Xia Erdan's genre painting and still life painting. It makes it easy for people to feel the warmth, life and flavor of the times in the painting. It is the greatness and touching of his works.

Prayer before Meal, Xia Erdan.