Still Life with Basket of Fruit
Artist
Balthasar van der Ast
Dutch, 1593/1594–1657
Date1622
MediumOil on panel
Dimensions19 1/2 x 32 in. (49.5 x 81.3 cm)
Frame: 30 1/4 x 44 in. (76.8 x 111.8 cm)
Frame: 30 1/4 x 44 in. (76.8 x 111.8 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.197
On View
On viewPublished ReferencesW. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 40
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 96.
Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), discussed 11, illus. (b-w) 11, fig. 10.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 86.
Joseph P. Covington, entry for Still Life with a Basket of Fruit, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 99, illus. (color).
Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 2, illus. (color) 8.
Joseph P. Covington, entry for Still Life with Basket of Fruit, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 208, illus. (color) 209.
Stiliana Milkova, “Mothers, Daughters, Dolls: On Disgust in Elena Ferrante’s La Figlia Oscura,” Italian Culture 31, no. 2 (September 2013), mentioned and illus. 99, fig. 1.
Arthur Wheelock, et al, Drawings for Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2017) (exhibition catalogue), 123, fn. 13 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt," October 25, 1986-February 15, 1987, discussed 11, illus. (b-w) 11, fig. 10.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Gallery, "Objects of Delight: Still-Lifes from the Permanent Collection," Oct. 5, 1990-June 16, 1991.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Age of the Marvelous," Jan. 25-March 22, 1992. (Did not travel with the exhibition.)
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–September 5, 2023.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston", September 16, 2023-January 7, 2024.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," March 26, 2024-present. Object Rights Statement
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