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Girl Eating Oysters
Jan Steen’s paintings often have a touch of eroticism. Here, a young woman is looking at us coquettishly while preparing an oyster. Oysters were known as an aphrodisiac, and this girl seems to be offering more than just good food. This small painting is meant to be studied close up. So Steen painted it very precisely and in great detail. Take the silver tray with bread and salt, for example. Or th…
Creator
- Jan Steen
Type of item
- painting
Date
- 1660 - 1658
- 1658/1660
- 1658/1660
Medium
- panel
Creator
- Jan Steen
Type of item
- painting
Date
- 1660 - 1658
- 1658/1660
- 1658/1660
Medium
- panel
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Identifier
- resource_document_mauritshuis_818
- 818
Format
- 15.1 cm
- 20.4 cm
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2017-08-02T11:48:29.662Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2023-02-28T08:45:41.077Z