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Joseph de Bray: In Praise of Herring

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Alternative names	Joseph de Braij, Joseph Salomonsz. de Braij, Joseph Salomonsz. de Bray, Jozef de Bray, Josephus de Bray
Description	Dutch painter and drawer
Date of birth/death	circa 1628-1629	16 May 1664
Location of birth/death	Haarlem	Haarlem
Work period	between circa 1643 and circa 1664 date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1643-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1664-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	Haarlem
Authority file	: Q1708311 VIAF: 67679510 ISNI: 0000000019825775 ULAN: 500018093 LCCN: no2009023650 WGA: b/bray/joseph WorldCat

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English: Still-Life in Praise of the Pickled Herring, with a poem by Jacob Westerbaen.

Nederlands: Lof van den Pekelharingh, vergezeld van een gedicht door Jacob Westerbaen.

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still life

Date

1656

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

height: 57 cm (22.4 in); width: 48.5 cm (19 in)

Collection

Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister

	Native name	Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
	Parent institution	Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
	Location	Dresden, Germany
	Coordinates	51° 03′ 12.17″ N, 13° 44′ 04.78″ E
	Established	1913
	Website	www.skd.museum
	Authority file	: Q4890 VIAF: 129655493 ISNI: 0000000122927710 LCCN: n50065753 GND: 2011569-6 SUDOC: 066857279 WorldCat

Accession number

1407 (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister)

Notes

Nederlands: Een peeckel-haringh blanck,/ Swaer-lijvigh, dick en lanck,/ Dien 't hoofd is afgeslagen;/ (...) En daer toe dan een stick/ Soo groot ghelijck een mick/ Van roggen-broodt ghekloven/Is goede medecijn (. . .)Hij maeckt het gorgel-gat/ Weer vaerdigh, ficx en glat.

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BRAY, Joseph de

(d. 1664, Haarlem)

Still-Life in Praise of the Pickled Herring 1656 Oil on oak, 57 x 48,5 cm Gemäldegalerie, Dresden

Fish still-lifes developed as a category during the seventeenth century - not an astonishing phenomenon when we recall that fishing, particularly for herring and cod, was a mainstay of the Dutch economy. A notable exponent of the type is Abraham van Beyeren. As the Dutch love for flowers, their love for seafood is proverbial. The Haarlemer Joseph de Bray, son of Salomon and brother of Jan, celebrated this taste in his picture, dated 1656, dedicated to the apotheosis of the pickled herring.

Resting behind the large, succulent herring and other objects in the painting's foreground, there is an elaborate tablet, draped with a festoon of herrings and requisite onions, inscribed with a poem by the Remonstrant preacher and poet Jacob Westerbaen: 'In praise of the Pickled Herring' published in 1633. After telling of the herring's delight to the eye, palette, and its other qualities, Westerbaen adds that consumption of it 'Will make you apt to piss/And you will not fail/(With pardon) to shit/And ceaselessly fart...' - proof, if it is needed, that plain profane messages are as likely embodied in Dutch paintings as spiritual ones. The painting was evidently a success. In the following year he painted another, somewhat larger still-life, now in Aachen, dedicated to the same subject. It includes the text of Westerbaen's verse dedicated to the pickled herring, and a brief passage from his poem 'Cupido' on the page of an open folio accompanied by an ample display of herrings and onions.

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Author: BRAY, Joseph de Title: Still-Life in Praise of the Pickled Herring Time-line: 1651-1700 School: Dutch Form: painting

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