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Trompe l'Oeil with a Dead Partridge
Hendrik de Fromantiou (Dutch, 1633 or 1634–after 1694)
1666
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
48.9 x 37.5 cm (19 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.)
Framed: 67.3 x 55.9 cm (26 1/2 x 22 in.)
Height x width: 25 x 28 in. (63.5 x 71.1 cm)
Framed: 67.3 x 55.9 cm (26 1/2 x 22 in.)
Height x width: 25 x 28 in. (63.5 x 71.1 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art
Accession Number2017.4188
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
Signed
Signed and dated 1666, lower center
ProvenanceNovember 19, 1958, anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 95, sold to Matthiesen Gallery, London [see note 1]. 1959 until 2006, private collection, Vancouver; April 6, 2006, anonymous ("Property of a Private Collector") sale, Christie's, New York, lot 51. By 2006, Johnny van Haeften Ltd., London; 2007, sold by Johnny van Haeften 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] The sale catalogue describes the painting only as "A Trompe L'Oeil Still Life," without illustration, but the painting is reproduced in the Witt Library photomounts with a caption indicating it was part of this sale.
NOTES;
[1] The sale catalogue describes the painting only as "A Trompe L'Oeil Still Life," without illustration, but the painting is reproduced in the Witt Library photomounts with a caption indicating it was part of this sale.