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Flower Still Life

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Name:
Flower Still Life
Artist:
Willem van Aelst (Dutch, b.1626, d.Post 1683), painter
Date:
Circa 1663
Place:
Delft/The Netherlands
Medium:
oil on canvas
Measurements:
20 3/4 x 15 1/2 in. (52.7 x 39.4 cm)
Classification:
Painting
Department:
European Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. L.W. Scott Alter
Provenance:
1987-present; Purchased from Richard Green Gallery. Bequeathed to the CAM.; Sold to Ruth Alter; Duits, Ltd., London loaned the painting to "The Flower in Art", an exhibition organized by the Victor Batte-Lay Trust at the Minories in Colchester, England, August 7-September 23, 1967, no 6, titled "Flowers with Blue Iris." A Duits, Ltd. index card identifies 12.2.70 as the date of sale to Richard Green Gallery. The sale is also recorded in the Duits Diary, February 12, 1970 (Getty Research Institute, Duits, Ltd., Archives, Box 24). Also see correspondence, October 12, 2000, June 11, 2001, and February 26, 2002.; Duits Diary records purchase of the Van Aelst, given stock number 1355, from W. Sabin. (Duits, Ltd., London, archives held at Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles),
Accession No:
1988.149

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