The Menkemaborg is a 17th-century aristocratic country house in Uithuizen. It is one of the best-preserved manor houses in the Netherlands and provides a rare and complete picture of how the nobility lived in the Netherlands at that time. In this work, Henk Helmantel has little eye for the manor itself, but rather for the rich bounty of the earth. Anyone who thinks he is simply picking up a few pears is mistaken. Henk can spend hours selecting; only when he has found a fruit he connects with can he paint it. So many approved pears reveal a substantial harvest at the manor.