Lot 172: Abraham van Beijeren , The Hague 1620/1 - 1690 Overschie Still life with various fish and crustaceans on a table beneath an open window oil on canvas, in a carved and gilt wood frame

signed with monogram on the window shutter: AVB f. oil on canvas, in a carved and gilt wood frame

measurements note 112 by 104.5 cm.; 44 by 41 1/8 in.

Anonymous sale, Gothenburg, Goteborgs Auktionsverk, 9 November 1977, lot 695.

This is a typical example of Van Beijeren's many still lifes depicting fish in an interior and is closely related to several works of vertical format, all of broadly similar dimensions, which all employ the same compositional motifs: an array of partly prepared fish and crustaceans on a wooden table before an open window in the upper left corner; compare, for example, the painting formerly with Hoogsteder and Hoogsteder, The Hague (see F.G. Meijer in L.M. Helmus (ed.), Fish Still lifes by Dutch and Flemish Masters 1550-1700, Utrecht 2004, p. 251, no. 18, reproduced p. 250).