Still Life with Lobster, Drinking Horn and Glasses

{{Short description|1650s painting by Willem Kalf}}

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| title=Still Life with Lobster, Drinking Horn and Glasses

| artist=Willem Kalf

| year=Approx. 1653

| medium=Oil on canvas

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| width_metric= 102.2

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| city=London

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Still Life with Lobster, Drinking Horn and Glasses is a 1653 painting by Dutch artist Willem Kalf.{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/willem-kalf-still-life-with-drinking-horn|title=Still Life with Drinking-Horn|publisher=National Gallery|accessdate=14 March 2016}} The painting is a still life, and has been referred to as "...a monument to luxury".{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/jan/30/art-austere-recession-willem-kalf|title=Should art be austere in a recession?|last=Jones|first=Jonathan|date=30 January 2012|work=The Guardian|accessdate=14 March 2016}} The horn in the painting dates to 1565, and is held in the Amsterdam Museum.

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