2015.68: Still Life with Oranges, Pomegranates, Grapes, Chestnuts, Medlars and Ears of Wheat
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2015.68
- People
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Cornelis Jansz de Heem, Dutch (Leiden 1631 - 1695 Antwerp)
- Title
- Still Life with Oranges, Pomegranates, Grapes, Chestnuts, Medlars and Ears of Wheat
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Oranges, Pomegranates, Grapes, Chestnuts and Ears of Wheat Suspended from a Ribbon Nailed to a Stone Niche
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- c. 1680-90
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/226910
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 64.2 x 54 cm (25 1/4 x 21 1/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: lower right: C. DE HEEM
- inscription: Top right, back of stretcher bar: 911 (?) in blue pencil
- inscription: Upper section on back of canvas: Wolfe 19 (?) in white chalk
- label: Top center of stretcher bar on back of painting on a piece of yellowed tape: 1050 in black ball point pen
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inscription: On the transverse arm (back of painting):
8206 in graphite over what appears to be black paint?
6271 (?) in same medium and in same place
- label: On the center of the transverse arm: small rectangular label with a distinctive decorative border [printed]; 3440 (?) [handwritten]; painted over with brown paint or stain
- inscription: Lower portion on back of canvas: [illegible white chalk inscription]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Josephine Wilkinson Gould (1934 - 2012) (in 1995 it was stated to be a long time possession of her family); to Josephine and Bernard Wilkinson U.S. Foundation, 12, bought in; [Skinner, Boston, September 20, 2013, lot 505], partial gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2015.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Partial gift of Josephine and Bernard Wilkinson U.S. Foundation and partial purchase through the Richard Norton Memorial Fund
- Accession Year
- 2015
- Object Number
- 2015.68
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Fine Paintings and Sculpture, auct. cat., Skinner, Inc. (September 20, 2013), pp. 8-9, lot. no. 505, repr. p. 9 and back cover
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/09/2016 - 09/08/2017
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