Frans van Mieris the Elder

The Oyster Meal

819 detail signatuur en datering
819 achterzijde
819 ingelijst
819 voorzijde
819 voorzijde

Frans van Mieris the Elder
The Oyster Meal

Zu sehen in Saal 15

This painting is regarded as the counterpart to Van Mieris’ Teasing the Pet, which is also hanging in the Mauritshuis. Although that painting dates from a year earlier, it is identical in size. It also has a similar theme – seduction. A man is trying to seduce a woman by offering her oysters, a delicacy known as an aphrodisiac. The man (Van Mieris himself) is obviously successful, as the woman (Van Mieris’ wife) is provocatively showing him her bosom.

Technische Daten
819 voorzijde

Frans van Mieris the Elder
The Oyster Meal

Zu sehen in Saal 15

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Details

Allgemeine Informationen
Künstler Frans van Mieris the Elder (Leiden 1635 - 1681 Leiden)
Titel The Oyster Meal
Objektname painting
Inventarnummer 819
Zu sehen in Saal 15
Material und technische Daten
Technik oil
Material panel
Maße 27.6 x 20.8 cm
Inschriften
Signed and dated lower right: F. van Mieris fescit [sic] / Leyd. Bat / A°1661
not entirely autograph

Ursprung

Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz-Neuburg, Düsseldorf and Mannheim, until 1716; Kurfürstliche Galerie, Schleissheim, (inventoried in 1718); by inheritance to King Ludwig I of Bavaria, Munich, 1825-1868; transferred together with other paintings from the Bavarian Royal Collections to the Alte Pinakothek, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich; sold by the Bavarian government to D.A. Hoogendijk Gallery, Amsterdam, 1931; gift of Henri W.A. Deterding, London, 1936