Light Meal
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Dimensionsh x w: Mått 57 x 50 cm h x w x d: Ram 65 x 58 x 5 cm
Inventory numberNM 499
Other titlesTitle (sv): Lätt måltid Title (en): Light Meal
DescriptionCatalogue raisonné: Description in Flemish paintings C. 1600-C. 1800 III, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2010, cat.no. 115: Technical notes: The plain-weave canvas probably comes from the same bolt as no. 114. The painting has been lined and it has been trimmed on all sides along the four edges of the current non-original stretcher. The texture of the lining canvas is clearly discernible in the surface layer of the painting. The pale brown ground has been applied thickly and evenly and completely covers the texture of the support. The paint surface is simply composed of opaque layers. Between the figures in the foreground and background there are areas in which the ground is visible. There are a few areas with highlights in impasto. The fabric of the canvas, the ground, the palette and brushwork are identical to no. 114. The painting underwent conservation treatment in 1868 and 1869. Provenance: Tessin−Fredrik I−Lovisa Ulrika 1749; Lovisa Ulrika 1760, Drh. no. 225; KM 1804, no. 183; KM 1816, no. 283; KM 1865, no. 283. Bibliography: Sander I, p. 97, no. 225; Göthe 1887, p. 133; Göthe 1893, pp. 166–167; Granberg 1930, p. 164; NM Cat. 1958, p. 106; NM Cat. 1990, p. 191. This work depicts a woman and a man sitting in a humble interior, probably an inn, next to a barrel with an arrangement of fruit as in a still life. Here Lambrechts provided proof of his talent not only as a genre painter but also in painting still lifes. Behind the two figures a third person can be seen. Similar versions of this motif by Lambrechts can be found, among them one that was sold in Hamburg in 2001.1 For other versions by Lambrechts see nos. 112–114. KS 1 Hamburg Kunstauktion, Van Keulen, 5–7 April 2001, lot 1223. [End]
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