Still Life with Fish on a Vending Counter, Jacob Foppens van Es
Jacob Foppens van Es
Still Life with Fish on a Vending Counter
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Jacob Foppens van Es

Still Life with Fish on a Vending Counter, ca. 1635 – 1640


Dimensions
86.7 x 219.4 cm
Physical Description
Oil on canvas
Inventory Number
691
Acquisition
Acquired in 1817
Status
On display, 2nd upper level, Old Masters, room 8

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In masterly fashion, this still life stages – on a scale of 1:1 – a whole variety of fish laid out on a kitchen bench. It may well have been commissioned by a Flemish fishmonger or fishmongers’ guild. The motif was thus not chosen primarily for its symbolic potential, but for tangible, practical reasons: both the patron and contemporary viewers will have understood the painting above all as a kind of certification of quality with respect to the merchandise offered for sale.

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10.09.2024