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Still-Life with Lobster and Fruit
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: Abraham van Beyeren
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A boiled lobster glows amid ripe fruit and fine glassware in this Dutch pronk still life by Abraham van Beyeren, painted by hand in oil for a wall that rewards close looking.
Description
Description
Hang this over a sideboard or in a dining room and it changes the temperature of the space entirely. The lobster glows a deep coral red against the shadows, the glassware catches whatever light the room offers, and the whole arrangement has the hushed, expectant air of a table set for guests who have not yet arrived. It is a picture built for close, unhurried looking, the kind of painting a room can be furnished around.
About Still-Life with Lobster and Fruit
The composition itself is a study in abundance and restraint. A boiled lobster, its shell ridged and glistening, anchors a table crowded with tumbling fruit, fine glassware, and folds of draped fabric that catch light along their creases. This kind of layered arrangement, prized in Dutch pronk still life for its display of luxury and skill, asks the painter to render half a dozen different surfaces convincingly within a single square foot of canvas: cool metal, warm rind, damp shell, dry cloth.
Abraham van Beyeren worked among the most accomplished still-life painters active in seventeenth-century Holland, and this canvas shows why his reputation has endured. His palette favours warm, saturated tones set against cooler shadow, and his brushwork moves easily between the glossy sheen of a polished glass and the soft, matte bloom of ripe fruit skin. There is real confidence in how quickly he shifts technique from object to object without ever losing the coherence of the whole scene, a mark of a painter working at the height of his powers.
Bringing a work like this into a room as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction means the surface itself does the talking. A trained artist rebuilds the composition stroke by stroke on artist-grade canvas, matching the original palette and preserving the texture that separates a painted surface from a printed one, so the raised impasto of the fruit and the layered shadow beneath the lobster remain visible up close. This is a replica painting made by hand, not a copy pulled from a printer, and it carries the depth that only oil on canvas can hold.
The hand-painted reproduction
Three centuries on, the picture still rewards the kind of attention it was built for, and owning a version painted rather than printed keeps that quality intact on your own wall. What you receive is:
- A hand-painted reproduction in oil on canvas, brushwork and surface texture included
- A choice of sizes to suit your wall
- Gallery-ready presentation, ready to hang
- A certificate of authenticity
- A painting made to order in 2 to 3 weeks and delivered to you in 5 to 7 days
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
Empty walls flatten a room. A classical artwork restores structure and visual hierarchy. One painting defines the space, anchors furniture, and establishes identity.
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
Framed — Ready to Hang
Select a handcrafted frame and we’ll deliver your painting fully assembled, protected, and ready to hang.
For safe shipping, framing is available up to a maximum size. Larger sizes will automatically disable the frame option.
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Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
Gallery Wrap
Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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