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Still Life with Oysters, Sweetmeats, and Dried Fruit in a Stone Niche
Osias Beert (Flemish, about 1580–1623)
1609
Medium/Technique
Oil on copper
Dimensions
50.8 x 45.1cm (20 x 17 3/4in.)
Framed: 68.6 x 62.5 x 7 cm (27 x 24 5/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
Framed: 68.6 x 62.5 x 7 cm (27 x 24 5/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art
Accession Number2022.1919
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
Although many artists in the 17th century painted winter landscapes, depictions of actual snowstorms are quite rare. Van der Neer was one of the few Dutch artists of the time to treat the subject of a heavy snowfall. This work, set in a generic Dutch locale, was surprisingly labor-intensive to produce—after completing the image, the artist painted in thousands of miniscule snowflakes.
Provenance1979, possibly Jean Thèves (b. about 1930 – d. 2013), Saint-Nom-la-Bretêche. 1984, Galerie De Jonckheere, Brussels and Paris [see note 1]. December 11, 1996, anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 26, to John Mitchell and Son, London, for Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Naples, FL; 2022, gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 6, 2022)
NOTES:
[1] According to RKD online image database (image no. 27022).
NOTES:
[1] According to RKD online image database (image no. 27022).