On a table that is partially covered with a drab cloth, lies a turkey that has been plucked of all but a few feathers. The artist has made a graceful arrangement of the head and neck. Part of the turkey’s wing, with a drop of blood at the tip, can be seen in front of the mortar. The chickens to the upper right have not yet been stripped of their feathers, and blood seeps from the beak of the largest. The turkey’s white flesh forms a sharp contrast with the dark background. The mortar might possibly allude to transience.
| Artist |
Abraham van Beijeren
RKD
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| Title | Still Life with Fowl |
| Date |
1661
1664 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | monogram top right: .AVB |
| indistinctive year on the mortar: 1[6]6[1] [of 1664] | |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1910-X |
| Acquisition credit |
gift
The Friends of the Museum Ghent 1910 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1910-X |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3811/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300015638 still lifes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25F3
birds
Iconclass
34E3 animals tied up Iconclass 41A771 container of metal: bucket, can, canister, drum, tin, etc. Iconclass 41C6 foodstuffs; still life of foodstuffs Iconclass 41E still life of miscellaneous objects Iconclass 41E1 still life of related objects Iconclass 43C1113 bird hunting Iconclass 49G831 pestle and mortar Iconclass |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
| Museum van Schoone Kunsten : Catalogus ; Oude Meesters, Schilderstukken, teekeningen, plaatsneden (met geschiedkundig overzicht) / Maurice Dupuis, Georges Charles Nicolas Marie Hulin de Loo, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Drukkerij F. De Vos, 1938 ; Gent : Stad Gent, 1938 (p. 25) |
| Chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand (exposition itinérante 'Quarante chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand' Bruxelles, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 12 février - 6 mars 1949 ; Liège, 12 mars - 3 avril 1949 ; Luxembourg, 9 avril - 1 mai 1949 ; Lille, 14 mai - 12 juin 1949) / Georges Chabot, Paul Eeckhout. - Bruxelles : Editions de la Connaissance, 1949 (p. 15, nr. 20) |
| Dutch Still-Life Painting in the Seventeenth Century / Ingvar Bergström. - London : Faber and Faber Limited, voorw.1956 (p. 252) |
| Abraham van Beyeren : De kalkoense hen / Jan Pieter Ballegeer. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 342, nr. 754) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. I, p. 52-53 (ill.)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021 |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021 |
| Museum of Fine Arts Ghent : The Collection (exhibition opened on March 21th 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Ghent : Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2021 |
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