Preparations for a Meal

Abraham Hendricksz van Beyeren Dutch, between 1620 and 1621-1690
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Preparations for a Meal

1664

Abraham Hendricksz van Beyeren

between 1620 and 1621-1690

Dutch

Unknown

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 31 3/8 × 27 1/2 inches (79.7 × 69.9 cm) Framed: 39 3/4 × 36 3/4 × 3 3/8 inches (101 × 93.3 × 8.6 cm)

Paintings

European Painting

Founders Society Purchase

35.21

This work is in the public domain.

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Signed and dated: AVB [artist's monogram] f 1664

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Provenance

1935, (Lilienfield Galleries Inc., New York, New York, USA)

April 1935-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat., John Herron Art Institute. Indianapolis, 1937, cat. 5 (ill.).

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 14, no. 434.

Sullivan, S.A. "Jan Baptist Weenix. Still Life with a dead Swan." Bulletin of the DIA 57 (1979) pp. 64-71 (fig. 2).

Matters of Taste: Food and Drink in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life. Exh. cat., Albany Institute of History & Art. Albany, 2002-2003, pp. 8, 40-41, cat. 6 (ill.).

Keyes, George S. et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 26–27, no. 7 (ill.).

Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art. Exh. cat., Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. Poughkeepsie, 2005, pp. 268-269, cat. 80 (ill.).

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Abraham Hendricksz van Beyeren, Preparations for a Meal, 1664, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 35.21.

Preparations for a Meal
Preparations for a Meal