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 view

ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Europe

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.