Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain

1. Henric Bugge van Ring (died 1669), Leyden, by 1667 [his inventory of that year, “een stuk met bloemen van der Spelt en een gordijntgen daer bij staende van Mieris” (A piece with flowers by van der Spelt and a little curtain with it by Mieris)]. John Webb, London; sold, Phillips, London, July 8–9, 1828, lot 70 as van der Spelt. George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (d. 1833), Stafford House, London [described by Passavant 1833]; by descent to George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland, Stafford House, London (d. 1861) to at least 1854 [described by Waagen 1837 and 1854]. Vitale Bloch, Paris, by 1949; sold to Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, La nature morte de l’antiquité à nos jours, April—June 1952, cat. no. 48, as van der Spelt.
• New York, Wildenstein, Magic of Flowers in Painting, April 13—May 15, 1954, cat. no. 76, as van der Spelt
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames 1300-1900, Oct. 17—Dec.14, 1986, cat. no. 35, as van der Spelt.
• The Hague, Mauritshuis, Great Dutch Paintings from America, Sept. 28, 1990–Jan. 13, 1991, cat. no. 57; San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, February 16, 1991–May 5, 1991.
• Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l’Oeil Painting in Europe and America, October 13, 2002–March 2, 2003, cat. no. 10.
• The Hague, Mauritshuis, Frans van Mieris 1635-1681, Oct. 1, 2005–Jan. 12, 2006, cat. no. 16; Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, February 26–May 21, 2006.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel Trade and Transformation, September 30, 2006-April 22, 2007, no cat.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition, Oct. 20, 2022 - Jan. 22, 2023, pl. 3.

• Johann David Passavant, Kunstreise durch England und Belgien: nebst einem Bericht über den Bau des Domthurms zu Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurt: S. Schmerber 1833), 63.
• Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Works of Art and Artists in England (London: John Murray, 1838), 254.
• Anna Jameson, Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London: Containing Accurate Catalogues, Arranged Alphabetically for Immediate Reference (London: Saunders and Otley, 1844), 211.
• Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, vol. 2, (London: John Murray, 1854), 71.
• Alfred von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, vol. 2, (Vienna: Halm and Goldmann, 1910), 645.
• Daniel Catton Rich, “In a Minor Key” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 47 no. 2 (April 1, 1953), 32.
• Patrik Reuterswärd, “Tavelförhänget. Kring ett motiv i holländskt 1600-talsmåleri,” Konsthistorisk tidskrift 25 (October 1956), 102-104 and fig. 8.
• Peter Mitchell, European Flower Painters (London: Adam and Charles Black 1973), 242, figs. 348 and 244.
• John Fowler and John Cornforth, English Decoration in the 18th Century (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1974), 100 and fig. 80.
• Christian Geelhaar, “Looking at Pictures with David Hockney,” Pantheon 36 (1978), 237 and fig. 8.
• Reinhart Schleier, “Das Stilleben im Bezugsfeld der Bildgattungen” in Gerhard Langemeyer and Hans Albert Peters, Stilleben in Europa, exh. cat. (Münster: Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst and Kulturgeschichte; Baden-Baden: Staatliche Kunsthalle, 1979-1980), 545 (ill.).
• Patrik Reuterswärd, “Om realismen i holländsk bildtradition,” Konsthistorisk tidskrift 49 (1980), 2, 5, and fig. 5.

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