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Still Life with a Lobster and Turkey

Abraham van Beyeren (1620/1621–1690)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Still Life with a Lobster and Turkey

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This sumptuous composition includes a number of accessories which appear in different arrangements in many of van Beyeren's paintings. The silver-gilt standing cup and cover appears frequently throughout his work. The lobster, a similar cup and cover, lemon, dish, melon and tazza all reappear in a still life in the Metropolitan Museum, New York which is also undated but, like this still life, may predate his earliest dated work of 1653.

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Title

Still Life with a Lobster and Turkey

Date

c. 1653

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 91 x W 112 cm

Accession number

WA1940.2.11

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward, 1939

Work type

Painting

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Abraham van Beyeren

1620/1621–1690

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