Crab on its Back

Crab on its Back
Dutch: Een op zijn rug liggende krab

Artist	Vincent van Gogh
Year	1888 (1888)
Catalogue	F 605
Type	Still life
Material	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	38 cm × 46.5 cm (15 in × 18.3 in)
Location	Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Crab on its Back (Dutch: Een op zijn rug liggende krab) is an 1888 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. It is a still life of a crab lying on its back with a green background. The painting is in the permanent collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.^[1]

The painting is possibly inspired by a Japanese print of a crab by Hokusai that Van Gogh had seen in the magazine Le Japon Artistique, that his brother Theo van Gogh had sent him in September 1888.^[1]^[2]

Related work

Van Gogh also painted Two Crabs (1889), a still life with two crabs of which one is lying on its back, which is on display in the National Gallery in London.^[2]

Two Crabs (1889)

References

1 2 Crab on its Back, 1888, Van Gogh Museum. Retrieved on 16 July 2014.
1 2 Two Crabs, National Gallery. Retrieved on 17 July 2014.

External links

Media related to Crab on its Back at Wikimedia Commons

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Family	Theo van Gogh Wil van Gogh Johanna van Gogh-Bonger Andries Bonger Theo van Gogh (film director) Anton Mauve Johannes Stricker

Friends	Anthon van Rappard Paul Gachet Paul Gauguin Émile Bernard John Peter Russell Eugène Boch Anna Boch Agostina Segatori

Groups of works	Portraits Early works Lost early works Sien Peasant Character Studies Cottages Van Gogh's family in his art Montmartre Le Moulin de la Galette Asnières Seine Wheat Fields Flowering Orchards Almond Blossoms Langlois Bridge at Arles Paintings of Children Décoration for the Yellow House The Roulin Family Hospital in Arles Butterflies Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy The Enclosed Wheat Field at Saint-Rémy Copies by Vincent van Gogh Olive Trees Display at Les XX, 1890 Auvers size 30 canvases Auvers Double-squares and Squares Japonaiserie Sunflowers Still life paintings by Vincent van Gogh (Netherlands) Still life paintings by Vincent van Gogh (Paris) Meadows near Rijswijk and the Schenkweg

Paintings	Farmhouse Among Trees Cart with Black Ox Cart with Red and White Ox The Potato Eaters The Night Café Poppy Flowers Interior of a Restaurant in Arles The Yellow House Memory of the Garden at Etten (Ladies of Arles) Cafe Terrace at Night Starry Night Over the Rhone Bedroom in Arles L'Arlésienne The Red Vineyard Falling Autumn Leaves Les Arènes View of Arles, Flowering Orchards Arles: View from the Wheat Fields Portrait of the Artist's Mother Ivy Farmhouse in Provence The Starry Night Enclosed Field with Peasant At Eternity's Gate Irises Portrait of Dr. Gachet Doctor Gachet's Garden in Auvers The Church at Auvers Wheatfield with Crows View of Paris from Vincent's Room in the Rue Lepic Daubigny's Garden Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Café du Tambourin Portrait of Père Tanguy Farms near Auvers Thatched Cottages and Houses White House at Night A Lane near Arles Blossoming Chestnut Branches A Meadow in the Mountains: Le Mas de Saint-Paul Wheat Field with a Lark Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette Road with Cypress and Star Tree Roots Sunset at Montmajour View of the Asylum and Chapel of Saint-Rémy Green Wheat Field with Cypress Crab on its Back Two Crabs Houses at Auvers Self-portrait (1889) Girl in White The 'Laakmolen' near The Hague

Other works	Drawings, water-colours and prints 87 Hackford Road Sorrow

Public collections	Van Gogh Museum Kröller-Müller Museum Musée d'Orsay

Portrayals	Lust for Life novel film Van Gogh (1991 film) Van Gogh (1948 film) Vincent Vincent & Theo Vincent in Brixton "Vincent and the Doctor"

Cataloguers	Jacob Baart de la Faille (1928 & 1970; F) Jan Hulsker (1978, revised 1989; JH)

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