Still-life with a Mouse, Walnuts and a Candle on a Stone Ledge
Willem van Aelst
(Dutch, 1627–after 1687)
1647
Medium/TechniqueOil on copper
Dimensions19.4 x 24.8 cm (7 5/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art
Accession number2017.4189
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPaintings
Collections
Provenance1973, Brian L. Koetser Gallery, London [see note 1]. Private collection, London. 1989, Richard Green (dealer), London. 1989, French and Co., New York. About 1995, Joost R. Ritman, Amsterdam; 1999, sold by Ritman to Benoit Wesly, Maastricht [see note 2]; 2001, sold by Wesly to Noortman Master Paintings, London; 2002, sold by Noortman Master Paintings to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA; 2017, gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 14, 2017)
NOTES:
[1] Included in the Autumn Exhibition of Fine Dutch, Flemish, and Italian Old Master Paintings (Brian L. Koetser Gallery, London, 1973).
[2] Lent anonymously to the exhibition Vermeer and the Delft School (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and National Gallery, London, 2001), pp. 212-213, cat. no. 1. Provenance information is taken from Frederik Duparc et al., Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection (New Haven, 2011), p. 55, cat. no. 1, and RKD online image database.
NOTES:
[1] Included in the Autumn Exhibition of Fine Dutch, Flemish, and Italian Old Master Paintings (Brian L. Koetser Gallery, London, 1973).
[2] Lent anonymously to the exhibition Vermeer and the Delft School (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and National Gallery, London, 2001), pp. 212-213, cat. no. 1. Provenance information is taken from Frederik Duparc et al., Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection (New Haven, 2011), p. 55, cat. no. 1, and RKD online image database.
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