Still life with a hare, pheasants and a lobster.

Hans Thoma was a German painter who developed a distinctive style combining elements of Romanticism, naturalism, and folk art influences from his native Black Forest region. This 1889 still life with game, pheasants, and lobster belongs to the traditional German still-life genre that Thoma approached with his characteristic earthen vitality. The combination of hunted game and the luxury item of a lobster — dead nature rendered with loving attention to texture and color — connects to centuries of Northern European still-life tradition while bearing Thoma's personal stamp. The work is currently in museum storage, awaiting institutional assessment.

The composition arranges game birds and lobster with attention to the contrast between feathered plumage and the lobster's shell. Thoma's naturalistic palette renders each element with careful observation of its specific color and texture — brown-gray pheasant feathers, the vivid red of boiled lobster. His handling is detailed and direct, in the German naturalist tradition.