File:Steen Oyster-eater.jpg

File
File history
File usage
Metadata

Size of this preview: 451 × 600 pixels. Other resolution: 1,000 × 1,330 pixels.

Original file ‎(1,000 × 1,330 pixels, file size: 229 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

This file is from a shared repository and may be used by other projects. The description on its file description page there is shown below.

Wikipedia does not have a File page with this exact name.

You need to log in or create an account to create this page.
Search for "Steen Oyster-eater.jpg" in existing pages within the File namespace.
Look for pages within Wikipedia that link to this title.

Other reasons this message may be displayed:

If an image was recently created here, it may not be visible yet because of a delay in updating the database; wait a few minutes or try the purge function.
Titles on Wikipedia are case sensitive except for the first character; please check alternative capitalizations and consider adding a redirect here to the correct title.
If the page has been deleted, check the deletion log, and see Why was the page I created deleted?

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	15:42, 17 January 2015		1,000 × 1,330 (229 KB)	Pimbrils	adjustment

File usage

The following file is a duplicate of this file (more details):

File:Steen Oyster-eater.jpg from Wikimedia Commons

The following page uses this file:

The Oyster Eater

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

User comments

an

(b. 1626, Leiden, d. 1679, Leiden)

The Oyster-eater 1658-60 Oil on panel, 21 x 15 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague

Any seventeenth-century viewer would have easily recognized what readily escapes viewers today: the oysters are laden with carnal overtones. According to the ancient mythographers, Aphrodite (known to the Romans as Venus), was conceived in an oyster shell which subsequently transported her to the island of Cyprus. To ancient and early modern minds, Aphrodite symbolized love, sex, and fertility; such concepts were also linked, by association, to oysters.

--- Keywords: --------------

Author: STEEN, Jan Title: The Oyster-eater Time-line: 1651-1700 School: Dutch Form: painting

Type: genre