Crab on its Back

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

Artist	Vincent van Gogh
Year	1887 (1887)
Catalogue	F 605
Type	Still life
Medium	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 1887 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]

Van Gogh and his brother, Theo, collected Japanese woodcut prints, and he may have taken inspiration for this painting from one of those.^[1]

Related work

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

Two Crabs (1889)

References

1 2 "A Crab on its Back - Van Gogh Museum". www.vangoghmuseum.nl. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
↑ Two Crabs, National Gallery. Retrieved on 17 July 2014.

External links

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Vincent van Gogh
General	Biography List of works Chronology The Letters of Vincent van Gogh Health Death Posthumous fame Cultural depictions Post-Impressionism Auberge Ravoux Café du Tambourin
Family	Theo van Gogh Wil van Gogh Johanna van Gogh-Bonger Andries Bonger Theo van Gogh (film director) Anton Mauve Johannes Stricker
Friends	Émile Bernard Eugène Boch Anna Boch Fernand Cormon Paul Gachet Paul Gauguin John Peter Russell Agostina Segatori Anthon van Rappard
Groups of works	Self portraits Portraits Early works Lost early works Sien Peasant Character Studies Cottages Van Gogh's family in his art Montmartre Outskirts of Paris Still life paintings, Paris Le Moulin de la Galette Asnières Seine Wheat Fields Flowering Orchards Almond Blossoms Langlois Bridge at Arles Saintes-Maries 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 Trees and Undergrowth 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, Netherlands Meadows near Rijswijk and the Schenkweg Houses at Auvers
Paintings	Boy Cutting Grass with a Sickle Beach at Scheveningen in Stormy Weather The 'Laakmolen' near The Hague Girl in White in the Woods Lying Cow A Girl in the Street, Two Coaches in the Background Cows in the Meadow Farmhouses Among Trees Bulb Fields Drawbridge in Nieuw-Amsterdam Landscape with Wheelbarrow Landscape with a Church at Twilight Landscape with Dunes Footbridge across a Ditch Marshy Landscape A Wind-Beaten Tree Farm with Stacks of Peat Farmhouses in Loosduinen near The Hague at Twilight Three Figures near a Canal with Windmill Two Rats Old Church Tower at Nuenen Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen Cart with Black Ox Cart with Red and White Ox Avenue of Poplars in Autumn Avenue of Poplars at Sunset Still Life with Straw Hat The Potato Eaters Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette Vase with Red Poppies Poppy Flowers Wheat Field with a Lark View of Paris from Vincent's Room in the Rue Lepic Portrait of Père Tanguy A Woman Walking in a Garden Imperial Fritillaries in a Copper Vase Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Café du Tambourin Landscape with Snow La Mousmé The Zouave The Night Café The Yellow House Van Gogh's Chair Café Terrace at Night Starry Night Over the Rhône Portrait of the Artist's Mother Bedroom in Arles A Lane in the Public Garden at Arles Falling Autumn Leaves L'Arlésienne The Red Vineyard Memory of the Garden at Etten (Ladies of Arles) Les Arènes Interior of a Restaurant in Arles A Lane near Arles View of Arles, Flowering Orchards Arles: View from the Wheat Fields Sunset at Montmajour Crab on its Back Two Crabs La Berceuse Irises The Starry Night Self-portrait (1889) Self-portrait without beard Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear A Meadow in the Mountains: Le Mas de Saint-Paul Enclosed Field with Peasant Wheat Field with Cypresses Green Wheat Field with Cypress Ivy Farmhouse in Provence Road with Cypress and Star At Eternity's Gate Thatched Cottages and Houses Portrait of Dr. Gachet Doctor Gachet's Garden in Auvers Houses at Auvers White House at Night Landscape with a Carriage and a Train Girl in White The Church at Auvers Daubigny's Garden Farms near Auvers The Town Hall at Auvers Blossoming Chestnut Branches Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat View of the Asylum and Chapel of Saint-Rémy Still Life: Vase with Pink Roses Wheatfield with Crows Tree Roots
Other works	Drawings, water-colours and prints 87 Hackford Road Marsh with Water Lilies Church Pew with Worshippers Portrait of a Man in a Top Hat Sorrow Woman on Her Deathbed Torso of Venus and a Landscape Old Vineyard with Peasant Woman
Museums	Van Gogh Museum Maison Van Gogh
Public collections	Kröller-Müller Museum Musée d'Orsay National Gallery (London)
Portrayals	Vincent van Gogh (1886 painting) Portrait of Vincent van Gogh (1887) The Painter of Sunflowers (1888 painting) Lust for Life (1934 novel 1956 film) Van Gogh (1948 film) Van Gogh (1956 opera) "Vincent" (1971 song) Vincent (1987 film) Vincent & Theo (1990 film) Vincent and Me (1990 film) Dreams (1990 film) Vincent (1990 opera) Van Gogh (1991 film) Vincent in Brixton (2003 play) "Vincent and the Doctor" (2010 TV episode) Loving Vincent (2017 film) At Eternity's Gate (2018 film)
Cataloguers	Jacob Baart de la Faille (1928 and 1970; "F") Jan Hulsker (1978, revised 1989; "JH")

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