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Still Life with a Basket of Fruit and a Bunch of Asparagus

Louise Moillon · 1630

Provenance

Ownership history

Gertrude D. Webster, Mass., probably to 1947 [Kleinberger archives, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]. Sold, Plaza Art Galleries, New York, 6–8 November 1947, no. 234, as Dutch School, to Kleinberger, New York [annotated sale cat. in Frick Art Reference Library, New York]; sold by Kleinberger to the Art Institute through the Wirt D. Walker Fund, 1948.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines, Jan. 29 – Apr. 26, 1982, cat. 73; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 26 – Aug. 22, 1982; Art Institute of Chicago, Sep. 18 – Nov. 28, 1982.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800, Oct. 1, 2023 - Jan. 7, 2024, cat. 115; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Mar. 1, 2024 - July 1, 2024.

Literature

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), 316.
Michel Faré, La Nature morte en France: Son Histoire et son évolution du XVIIe au XXe siècle (Geneva, 1962), vol. 2, fig. 33.
Michel Faré, Le Grand Siècle de la nature morte en France: Le XVIIe Siècle (Fribourg and Paris, 1974), 55 (ill.).
James A. Schinneller, Art: Search and Self-Discovery, 3rd ed. (Worcester, Mass., 1975), 28 (ill.).
Ann Sutherland Harris in Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Women Artists: 1550–1950, exh. cat. (1976), 141.
Claude Lesné, "La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines," Le Petit Journal des grandes expositions 116 (1982), n.p. (ill.).
J. V. Hantz, "La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines," L’Amateur d’art 35, no. 680 (1982), 19.
Erich Schleier, "La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines: France in the Golden Age, part 2," Kunstchronik 36 (1983), 232.
André Chastel, Musica depicta (Milan, 1984), 30, 100–01 (ill.).
Christopher Wright, The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century (London, 1985), 233.
Beatrijs Brenninkmeyer-de Rooij in Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, De Rembrandt à Vermeer: Les Peintres hollandais au Mauritshuis de La Haye, exh. cat. (1986), 62, fig. 29.
Gerardo Casale, Giovanna Garzoni: "Insigne minatrice," 1600–1670 (Milan and Rome, 1991), 28 (ill.).

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