About the Artwork
The Oyster Meal
between 1650 and 1655
Hendrik van der Burch
1627-after 1666
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on oak panel
Unframed: 16 × 14 1/8 inches (40.6 × 35.9 cm) Framed: 23 5/8 × 22 × 4 1/8 inches (60 × 55.9 × 10.5 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
City of Detroit Purchase
28.56
Public Domain
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Provenance
1923, collection of A. Reyre (London, England);(Henry Reinhardt and Son, Inc., New York, New York, USA);
1928-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Valentiner, W. H. "Paintings by Pieter de Hooch and Jacobus Vrel," Bulletin of the DIA 9, no. 7 (April 1928): pp. 78-81, esp. pp. 80-81, (repr. on cover) [as Soldier Scene by Pieter de Hooch].
Valentiner, W. H. Pieter de Hooch des Meisters Gemälde. Stuttgart/Berlin/Leipzig, 1929 (KdK), pp. 224, 292 [as H. van der Burch]; ditto English ed. of same year.
Valentiner, W. H. "Ein unbekanntes Meisterwerk der holländischen Genre-Malerei," Pantheon, vol. 3 (1929): pp. 105-114, esp. p. 114.
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 23, (repr.).
Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 19, no. 23.
Sutton, P. C. "Hendrick van der Burch," Burlington Magazine, vol. 122 (1980): pp. 315-326, cited on p. 320.
Kersten, M. and D.H.A.C. Lokin. Delft Masters, Vermeer's Contemporaries. Exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum het Prinsenhof. Delft, March1-June 9, 1996, p. 173, (fig. 170) (color).
Keyes, George S. et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 50–51, no. 16 (ill.).
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Hendrik van der Burch, The Oyster Meal, between 1650 and 1655, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 28.56.
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