Dead Birds and Shot Bags by Pieter Boel
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Dead Birds and Shot Bags

Pieter Boel · c. 1660

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Adolf Mayer, Mannheim and The Hague, by December 1936 [see The Hague 1936 exh. cat., no. 77, and label on reverse of stretcher]; by descent to his sons, Adolf I. Mayer Jr., New York, and H. Herbert Mayer, The Hague [see forward of 1948 Oberlin exh. cat.]; probably offered for sale by Adolf I. Mayer Jr. and H. Herbert Mayer through Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Gallery, New York [see forward of Oberlin 1948 exh. cat. and Van Diemen and Lilienfeld label on reverse of stretcher]; sold by Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1955.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • The Hague, Oude Kunst uit Haagsch Bezit, December 12, 1936–January 31, 1937, cat. 77.
  • Oberlin, Ohio, Allen Memorial Art Museum, The Adolph Mayer Collection, long-term loan exhibition beginning in 1948, catalogue published in Allen Memorial Museum Bulletin 5 (January 1948), cat. 3, p. 3 (ill.).

Literature

Published references

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 167.

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