Ebony Cabinet with Thirteen Paintings of Classical Subjects

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Ebony Cabinet with Thirteen Paintings of Classical Subjects

ArtistAttributed to Simon Floquet Flemish, circa 1615 (?)–after 1635

Datecirca 1630–1635

MediumCabinet: wood with ebony veneer and mirror glass; paintings: oil on copper

DimensionsCabinet (not including stand) 28 1/2 x 33 x 16 1/4 in. (72.4 x 83.8 x 41.3 cm)

ClassificationsFurniture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the bequest of W. R. Valentiner, Dr. Hans S. Schaeffer and Julius Böhler in memory of W. R. Valentiner, Mr. and Mrs. Doak Finch, and Robert Badenhop, by exchange

Object number99.3

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ProvenanceCreated Flanders [present day Belgium], ca. 1630–1635. Ernst Freiherr Blümner von Frohburg (1779–1815), Schloss Frohburg, near Leipzig, Germany; Krug von Nidda Collection, Germany; by descent; [Sotheby’s, London, July 9, 1998, no. 1, as Flemish School, 17th century]; [Otto Naumann, Ltd., New York]; sold to NCMA, 1999.

Published References“Old Master Paintings” (auction catalogue) (London: Sotheby’s, July 8, 1998), lot 1, as Flemish School, 17th century.

Dennis P. Weller, "Kunstkabinet Expands Northern European Collection," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview and Calendar of Events (November/December 1999), 8-9, illus. (b-w) 9, three details (b-w) 8.

Peter Sutton, Old Master Paintings (New York: Otto Naumann, Ltd., 1999), 28-31.

"Art Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Annual Report (1998-99), 8, illus. (color) back cover.

"La Chronique des Art," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1574 (March 2000), listed no. 194, illus. (b-w) 49.

Dennis P. Weller, "Art in the Age of Rubens and Rembrandt," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (September/October 2002), mentioned 6, illus. (color) 7.

Max Halperen, "Dutch treats," Raleigh: The News and Observer (October 13, 2002), illus. (color detail) 1G.

Eleanor H. Gustafson, "Museum accessions," Antiques (April 2004), discussed and illus. (color) 28.

"Replicating a 17th-Century Flemish 'Kunstkamer'," in Old Masters in Context 2000-2006 (New York: Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 2006), illus. (color) 50.

Dennis P. Weller, “Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish Paintings in Raleigh,” Codart (Winter 2009), mentioned 13.

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 54.1-13, illus. (color) 256, also mentioned xiii.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Objects of Desire: The Museum Collects, 1994-2004," July 18, 2004-February 27, 2005.

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