Brilliant surfaces of metalwork and glass reflect lush fruits and a lobster in this still life. Heavily laden tables like this one, boasting both foodstuffs and imported luxuries such as the blue-and-white porcelain bowl from China, typify Dutch still life in the second half of the seventeenth century. Such paintings represent a shift away from the reminders of immortality and vanity in earlier still lifes and toward a wholehearted embrace of earthly pleasures.
This painting was seized by the Nazis from Baron Karl Neuman (Charles Neuman de Végvár) in Paris and restituted to him by 1947.
Price: $12 – $451
Title: Still Life with Lobster and Fruit
Artist: Abraham van Beyeren (Dutch, The Hague 1620/21–1690 Overschie)
Date: probably early 1650s
Medium: Oil on wood
Dimensions: 38 x 31 in. (96.5 x 78.7 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of Edith Neuman de Végvár, in honor of her husband, Charles Neuman de Végvár, 1971
Accession Number: 1971.254
| size specs | 11 x 14: 27.9 x 35.6cm, 16 x 20: 41 x 51cm, 20 x 30: 51 x 76cm, 30 x 40: 76.2 x 101.6cm, 40 x 50 101,6 x 127cm, A0: 84.1 x 118.9cm, A1: 59.4 x 84.1cm, A2: 42 x 59.4cm, A3: 29.7 x 42cm, A4: 21 x 29.7cm |
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| Material | Canson Lustre 310gsm, Canson Photographique 310gsm, High Gloss Film 165gsm |
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