Still Life with a Hanging Bunch of Grapes, Two Medlars, and a Butterfly, 1687

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 50

Medium

oil on canvas

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.)

Credit Line

The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund

Accession Number

2020.16.1

Artists / Makers

Adriaen Coorte (painter) Dutch, active c. 1683 - 1707

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Inscription

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

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

Allen, Irving
André, Johann Anton
Art market, London
Green, Richard
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)

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.