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The Oyster Meal
Frans van Mieris the Elder1661
Mauritshuis
Den Haag, Netherlands
This painting is regarded as the counterpart to Van Mieris’ <i< /a>>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.
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Details
- Title: The Oyster Meal
- Creator: Mieris the Elder, Frans van
- Date Created: 1661
- Physical Dimensions: h27.6 cm x w20.8 cm
- Provenance: 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 Sir Henri W.A. Deterding, London, 1936
- Type: painting; oil
- Medium: panel
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