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The Miraculous Draught of Fishes
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Joachim BeuckelaerArtist · 1534–1574
All works by this person →Joachim Beuckelaer's specialties--small genre scenes and still lifes on panel--often included depictions of Bible stories. After studying with his uncle Pieter Aertsen, who pioneered the new subjects of kitchen and market scenes, Beuckelaer took up this genre. These popular pictures displayed abundant food, with people either standing around or preparing a meal, while the background nearly always
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- 1563
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- Oil on panel
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- Netherlandish
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- Paintings
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- Getty Museum
At the left, Saint Peter and other disciples of Christ pull their teeming nets of fish aboard a boat. After an unsuccessful night of fishing on the Sea of Tiberius, the tired and hungry disciples had seen a man standing on the shore and followed his advice to cast their nets over the boat's right side. Their miraculous catch inspired Peter to recognize Christ, appearing after his death and Resurrection; in the middle scene, Peter enters the water to meet him. On the right, Christ and the disciples share a meal around a fire. The foreground depicts peasants hauling in baskets of fish to take to the market, forming a contemporary parallel to the biblical scene. Joachim Beuckelaer specialized in combining genre subjects with religious scenes. In *The Miraculous Draught of Fishes,* he contrasted the spiritual world of the Bible with the materialism of the contemporary world.
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