Still Life

1. Probably Cassirer, Amsterdam [the mounts of photos in both the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, and the Witt Library, London, are marked Cassirer, Amsterdam, 1939, though the picture was at the Art Institute from late 1935; the Witt photo is also annotated “Worcester, Mass.”; see also Vroom 1945 and Bergstrom 1956]. M. Knoedler & Co., New York by 1935 [receipt dated September 9, 1935 in Registrar’s office; the number A 1559 printed on a label on the back may be the Knoedler’s stock number]; sold to the Art Institute, 1935.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, "Condition; Excellent," March - April 1951, cat. 8.

• Art Institute of Chicago, Report for the Year 1935 in Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 30, Part III (1936), pp. 23, ill., 36.
• N. R. A. Vroom, De schilders van het monochrome banketje (Amsterdam, 1945), pp. 17-18, 198, no. 19, fig. 5.
• Ingvar Bergström, Studier i holländskt stillebenmåleri under 1600-talet (Gothenburg, 1947), p. 124.
• “In the Lowlands…Genius & Realism,” Masterpieces 1 (1950), p. 64 (ill).
• “Condition: Excellent,” Worcester Art Museum News Bulletin and Calendar 16 (1951) p. 25 (ill).
• Ingvar Bergström, Dutch Still-life Painting in the Seventeenth Century (London, 1956), pp. 118, 305.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 78 (ill.), p. 186.
• N. R. A. Vroom, A Modest Message as intimated by the painters of the 'Monochrome Banketje' vol. 1 (Schiedam, 1980), pp. 89-91, fig. 119.
• Alberto Veco, Simposio: cerimonie e apparati, exh. cat., Galleria Lorenzelli, Bergamo, 1983, p. 176.
• Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1986), p. 52.
• Claus Grimm, Stilleben. Die niederländischen und deutschen Meister (Stuttgart and Zurich, 1988), p. 108, figs. 53, 54.
• Sam Segal, A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands, 1600-1700 (The Hague, 1988), p. 215, n. 7.

Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Still Life with Oysters, a Silver Tazza, and Glassware

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Maid Asleep

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Adoration of the Shepherds

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vanitas Still Life

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Watch in the form of a human skull

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Still Life with a Glass and Oysters

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence

Art Institute of Chicago

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