Still Life with a Hanging Bunch of Grapes, Two Medlars, and a Butterfly

1687

Adriaen Coorte

Painter, Dutch, active c. 1683 - 1707

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 38.1 × 30.5 cm (15 × 12 in.)
    framed: 47.31 × 40.64 × 5.4 cm (18 5/8 × 16 × 2 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2020.16.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Probably Johann Anton André [1775-1842], Offenbach-am-Main, by 1838.[1] possibly the art market, London. Irving Allen [1905-1987], London, by 1982; sold 1982 to private collection, London; (Richard Green Gallery, London); purchased October 2020 by NGA.
[1] Verzeichniss der Oelgemälde und Kupferwerke des Hofrath's André in Offenbach a. M., Offenbach-am-Main, 1838: no. 68, as “Eine Weintraube etc. Rechter Hand auf der Seite steht des Malers ausgeschreibener Name wit der Jahrzahl 1687” by A.S. Coorte.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

  • Clouds, Ice, and Bounty: The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Collection of Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021.

Bibliography

1838

  • Probably Verzeichniss der Oelgemälde und Kupferwerke des Hofrath's André in Offenbach a. M., Offenbach-am-Main, 1838: no. 68, as “Eine Weintraube etc. Rechter Hand auf der Seite steht des Malers ausgeschreibener Name wit der Jahrzahl 1687” by A.S. Coorte.

1953

  • Probably Bol, Laurens J. "Adriaen S. Coorte: Stillevenschilder." Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 4 (1952-1953): 213, no. 5.

1977

  • Probably Bol, Laurens J. Adriaen Coorte: A Unique Late Seventeenth Century Dutch Still-Life Painter. Assen, 1977: 15 n. 29, 45, no. 8.

1982

  • Bol, Laurens J. 'Goede onbekenden': Hedendaagse herkenning en waardering van verscholen, voorbijgezien en onderschat talent. Utrecht, 1982: 11, fig. 12a.

2003

  • Willigen, Adriaan van der, and Fred G. Meijer. A dictionary of Dutch and Flemish still-life painters working in oils, 1525-1725. Leiden, 2003: 66.

2008

  • Buvelot, Quentin. The still lifes of Adriaen Coorte (active c.1683-1707): with oeuvre catalogue. Exh. cat. Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague. Zwolle, 2008: 32, 36 pl. 25, 88-89, no. 9.

2021

  • Rahussen, Henriette. "Adriaen Coorte, Still Life with a Hanging Bunch of Grapes, Two Medlars, and a Butterfly." Art for the Nation no. 63 (Spring/Summer 2021): 7, fig. 7.

Inscriptions

lower right, date underlined: ·A:Coorte·i687·

Wikidata ID

Q108686549

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