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A Vanitas Still Life with a Flag, Candlestick, Musical Instruments, Books, Writing Paraphernalia, Globes, and Hourglass

Edwaert Collier · 1662

Provenance

Ownership history

Count Edward Raczynski, Warsaw and London, by 1929 [according to Zarnowska 1929]; probably sold to Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Lewis Marshall, Charlottesville, VA, and London, by 1961 [according to Chapel Hill 1961]; sold, Bonhams, London, March 28, 1974, lot 28. Private collector, by 1998; sold, Sotheby’s, London, December 17, 1998, lot 39. Sold, Sotheby’s, New York, January 31, 2013, lot 68, to private collector, Greenwich, CT; sold to Salomon Lilian Dutch Old Master Paintings, Amsterdam, November 20, 2019; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, William Ackland Memorial Art Center, The Elizabeth and Fielding Lewis Marshall Collection, March 22–April 23, 1961 (no catalogue).
London, Sotheby’s, Exhibition of the Marshall collection : which will be sold by auction by Sotheby & Co. in several parts during 1974: the exhibition to be held in the large galleries 34-35 New Bond Street, London, December 31, 1973–January 8, 1974, no. 19 (ill.).

Literature

E. Zarnowska, La Nature morte hollandaise: Les principaux représentants ses origines, son influence (Brussels/Maastricht: A. A. Stols, 1929), 11 (as, erroneously, dated 1665).
Wendela Burgemeister, Salomon Lilian Old Masters 2020 (Amsterdam: Salomon Lilian, 2020), 6-9, no. 1.
James Rondeau, ed., Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the collection (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2025), 43 (ill.).
James Rondeau, ed., Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2026), 78, 259, no. 53, (ill.).

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