Clara Peeters
Still Life with Crab, Shrimps and Lobster

ArtistFlemish, 1594–after 1657
CultureFlemish
Titles
  • Still Life with Crab, Shrimps and Lobster
Datec. 1635–1640
PlaceNetherlands
MediumOil on wood
Dimensions27 7/8 × 42 7/8 in. (70.8 × 108.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Enthoven Foundation
Object number99.308
Non exposé

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Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Matter of Taste: Food and Drink in 17th Century Dutch Art and Life" at the Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, September 20–December 8, 2002.

"Picturing the Senses in European Art," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 10–July 17, 2011.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
There is a label on the verso of the panel, lower left: "Dordrechts Museum / 'Nederlandse stillevens nit vier eeuwen' / (1954) / Cat. No: 79 / Kunstenaresse: Clara Peeters / Onderwerp: Ontbijt / Eigenaar: N.v.Bohemen, Den Haag".
The painting is unsigned.

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