A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms
Artist
Pieter Aertsen
Netherlandish, 1507/1508–1575
Date1551
MediumOil on panel
Dimensions45 1/2 x 66 1/2 in. (115.6 x 168.9 cm)
Frame: 57 1/4 x 77 1/2 x 4 in. (145.4 x 196.9 x 10.2 cm)
Frame: 57 1/4 x 77 1/2 x 4 in. (145.4 x 196.9 x 10.2 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from Wendell and Linda Murphy and various donors, by exchange
Object number93.2
On View
On viewJohannes Sievers, Pieter Aertsen: Ein Beitrag Zur Geschichte Der Nieder-Ländischen Kunst Im XVI Jahrhundert (Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1908), 43-49, illus.44, fig. 8
Avigdor W. G. Posèq, "The Hanging Carcass Motif and Jewish Artists," Journal of the Center for Jewish Art (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, 1990-1991), discussed 144, fig. 7 143
"Important and Fine Old Master Paintings" (auction catalogue, 9 July 1993), lot 8, illus. 16
Gazette Des Beaux-Arts, no. 1502 (March 1994), 50, illus. fig. 220.
David Steel, "Pieter Aertsen's Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview, Annual Report (Winter, 1994-95), 14-17, illus. (color) 14, details (b-w) 15-17.
Blue Greenberg, "Taxpayers can view works their money bought," Durham Herald-Sun, Preview Section (September 26, 1997), 4, illus. (b-w).
David Steel, entry for A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998, 7, 69, 76-77, illus. (color) 76.
Chuck Twardy, "Gifts to ourselves," Raleigh: The News and Observer, "What's Up" insert (December 12, 1997), mentioned 16.
Alan Chong and Wouter Kloek, Still-Life Paintings from the Netherlands, 1550-1720 (exhibition catalogue) (Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 1999), cat. no. 1 (as Meat Pantry of an Inn, with the Virgin Giving Alms), illus. (color) 105.
Elizabeth Alice Honig, "Amsterdam and Cleveland: Dutch and Flemish still life," The Burlington Magazine 141, no. 1158 (September 1999), 569, illus. (b-w). (Exhibition review)
Charlotte Houghton, Pieter Aertsen: Meat, Social Status and Spatial Politics in Pieter Aertsen's Meat Stall,” (PhD diss, Duke University, 1999), 1-2, 38 note 1, 190, illus. fig. 1.
Margaret A Sullivan, “Aertsen's Kitchen and Market Scenes: Audience and Innovation in Northern Art,” The Art Bulletin 81, no. 2 (1999), illus. (b-w) fig. 8.
Alan Chong, "Still Life: A Pan-European Phenomenon," in Old Masters 2000: A Celebration of Still Life Painting (auction catalogue) (New York: Sotheby's, 2000), 11, illus. (color).
Fred G. Meijer, "Still-Life Paintings from the Netherlands" (exh. cat. review) Oud Holland 114, no. 2/4 (2000), 226.
Charlotte M. Houghton, "A topical reference to urban controversy in Pieter Aertsen's 'Meat Stall,'" The Burlington Magazine, 142, no. 1176 (March 2001), 158-160, illus. (b-w) 159.
Art Taylor, "Museum Loans," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (March/April 2002), mentioned 7.
Das Flämische Stilleben: 1550-1680 (exhibition catalogue) (Vienna: Luca Verlag Lingen, 2002), cat. no. 1, discussed 34, 161, illus. (color) 35 and (color) detail 160.
Adriaan van der Willigen and Fred G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Painters Working in Oils, 1525-1725 (Leider: Primavera Press in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for Art History, 2003) mentioned 26.
Hans Vlieghe, "Vienna and Essen: Flemish still-life painting" (exhibition review), The Burlington Magazine 145, no. 1199 (February 2003), discussed and illus. (color) 114.
Charlotte Houghton, "This Was Tomorrow: Pieter Aertsen's Meat Stall as Contemporary Art," The Art Bulletin (June 2004), 277-300, illus. (color) 278 and detail (color) cover; also details (b-w) 278, 279, 285, 287, 288, 289.
Mirjam Neumeister, Holländische Gemälde im Städel, 1550-1800, Vol. 1 (Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2005), mentioned 332, illus. (b-w) 334, fig. 316.
Paul Jeromack, "Trendspotting: Masterpiece Theater," in Art and Auction (Investment Annual 2005), briefly discussed and illus. (color) 63.
William Brown, "Look but Don't Touch," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (May/June 2006), mentioned and illus. (color) 11: photo depicts painting in process of being glazed.
Edward J. Sullivan, The Language of Objects in the Art of the Americas (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007), briefly discussed 196, illus. (b-w) 197, fig. 142.
Gian Casper Bott, Still Life (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), discussed 8-9, illus. (color) 17, fig. 15.
Alan Chong, "Alegorías de la abundancia: la pintura de bodegón en Flandes," in La senda española de los artistas flamencos (Madrid: Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado, 2009), 216; also Wouter Kloek, "Pieter Aertsen, el artista y su impacto," 265, 268, 272, illus. (color) pl. XXXVI.
Wouter Kloek, Pieter Aertsen en de wereld op zijn kop (Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2010), 22-23, illus. (color) 22, fig. 18.
David Steel, entry for A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 19-21, 174-175, illus. (color) 19, 177, detail (color) 176.
C. D. Dickerson III, Raw Painting: The Butcher's Shop by Annibale Carracci (New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Kimbell Art Museum, 2010), briefly discussed 15-17, illus. (color) 16, fig. 13.
Dennis P. Weller, “Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snyders: The Business of Collaboration,” in Rubens: Inspired by Italy and Established in Antwerp (exhibition catalogue) (Tokyo: Bunkamura Museum of Art, 2013), mentioned 242 and illus. (b-w) 241, fig. 10. (English translation published separately; discussed 27 and illus. 26.) (Catalogue only, not in exhibition.)
Jerry Bleem, “No time to stall,” in U.S. Catholic 79, no. 1 (January 2014), briefly discussed and illus. (color) 50.
Hans Buijs and Ger Luitjen, eds., Goltzius to Van Gogh: Drawings and Paintings from the P. & N. de Boer Foundation (Paris: Fondation Custodia, 2014), illus. (color) 122, fig. 54a.
Matthias Ubl, Der Braunschweiger Monogrammist (Amsterdam and Petersberg: Rijksmuseum and Michael Imhof Verlag, 2015), illus. (color) 111, fig. 3.6 and details (color) 163, figs. 4.21 and 4.22.
Michael Hutter, The Rise of the Joyful Economy (London and New York: Routledge, 2015), discussed 139–145, detail (b-w) 143, fig. 5.1.
Deborah L. Krohn, Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy (Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015), briefly discussed 95, illus. (color) fig. 4, following p. 142.
Xa Sturgis, “Casting Corpses,” in Daphne Wright: Emotional Archaeology, Josephine Lanyon, ed. (Bristol, UK: Arnolfini, 2016), mentioned and illus. (color), 124, fig. 1 (caption and fig. no. erroneously switched with fig. 2).
Jonathan Farmer, "To Pieter Aertsen, on A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms, Written in the First Months of the Covid-19 Outbreak" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 126.
Alena Alexandrova, Dis-Continuities: The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015), illus.
Goltzius to Van Gogh: Drawings and Paintings from the P. and N. de Boer Foundation (exhibition catalogue), Hans Buijs and Ger Luitjen, eds. (Bussum, Netherlands: Thoth Publication for Fondation Custodia, 2014), illus.
Matthias Ubl, Der Braunschweiger Monogrammist: Wegbereiter der niederländischen Genremalerei vor Bruegel (Petersberg, Germany: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2014), illus.
Frederica Van Dam et al., Theodoor Rombouts: Virtuoso of Flemish Caravaggism (exhibition catalogue) (Ghent: Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 2023), 232, illus. (color) (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
Alexander Wied, Larder with Mary Distributing Alms 1551, 2Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Art for the People: Recent Museum Acquisitions," September 14, 1997-January 4, 1998. (Closing date extended to January 25, 1998)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, "Still-Life Paintings from the Netherlands, 1550-1720," June 19-September 19, 1999; Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, October 31, 1999-January 9, 2000, cat. no. 1 (as Meat Pantry of an Inn, with the Virgin Giving Alms), illus. (color) 105.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, "Das Flämische Stillleben," March 18-July 21, 2002; Essen, Kulturstiftung Ruhr Essen · Villa Hügel, September 1-December 8, 2002, cat. no. 1, illus. (color) 35, detail (color) 160.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Becoming the NCMA: 10 Decades of Collecting, 1924-2022," June 11-August 21, 2022.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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