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Like most of van Beyeren's many still-life paintings of fish, this composition depicts sea fish. He sometimes showed them out of doors, usually on a beach, and sometimes indoors on a table before a window which opens onto a fish market on a beach, or as here before a closed window. He painted fish paintings throughout his career. This one is difficult to date but there are similar still-life paintings of fish in the Staatliche Museen, Berlin (dated 1655) and in the Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna (dated 1666).

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

Interior with Still Life of Fish

Date

c. 1655

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 104 x W 89 cm

Accession number

WA1940.2.8

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward, 1939

Work type

Painting

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Artist or maker

Abraham van Beyeren

1620/1621–1690

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