Still Life with Two Figures
Artist
Pieter Cornelisz. van Rijck
Dutch, 1567/68–1635 or after
Date1622
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions49 5/8 x 58 1/4 in. (126 x 148 cm)
Frame: 63 7/8 x 72 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (162.2 x 184.2 x 10.8 cm)
Frame: 63 7/8 x 72 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (162.2 x 184.2 x 10.8 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number62.1.6
On View
Not on view[1] According to a letter dated September 22, 1962, from Edmond Wlazlo, a friend of Engeler and subsequent owner of this painting, it was supposedly inherited from an unidentified older brother who was a painter.
Published ReferencesNew Orleans States-Item, November 16, 1962.
La Chronique des Arts, supplement to the "Gazette des Beaux-Arts," nos. 1122-1123 (July/August 1962), 5.
La Chronique des Arts, supplement to the "Gazette des Beaux-Arts," no. 1129 (February 1963), 26 illus. no. 110.
The Art Quarterly 26 no. 2 (Summer 1963), 263.
"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 and 3 (Winter/Spring 1964), mentioned 9, listed 64, illus. (b-w) 44.
Donna R. Barnes and Peter G. Rose, Matters of Taste: Food and Drink in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life (exhibition catalogue) (Syracuse: Published for the Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, by Syracuse University Press, 2002), discussed 116, illus. (color) 117.
Peter G. Rose, "Dutch food in life and art," The Valley Table (June-August 2002), illus. 45.
Timothy Cahill, "Dutch treat," (exhibition review) Albany, NY: Times Union Arts(September 2, 2002), illus. 1.
Peter G. Rose, "Dutch treats," The Journal News (September 18, 2002), illus. 1E.
Wendy Liberatore, "Feast for the eyes," (exhibition review) Sunday Gazette (September 29, 2002), illus G1.
Peter G. Rose, "Dutch Food in Life and Art," Culinary Historians of New York 16, no. 1 (Fall 2002), illus. 1.
Bob Geopfert, "Institute meal fluffy, not stuffy," (exhibition review) The Troy Record (November 3, 2002), illus. unnumbered page.
Berkshire Home & Style (November 2002) illus. front cover.
Lorraine Smorol, "Dutch treat," (exhibition review) Syracuse, NY: Syracuse New Times (November 20, 2002), illus.
Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 38, illus. (color) 176, also mentioned xii.
Donna R. Barnes and Ruud Spruit, Food for Thought: Food and drink in seventeenth-century Dutch art and life (exhibition catalogue) (Hoorn: Westfries Museum, 2010), briefly discussed 57, illus. (color) 56 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
Polyxeni Potter, “One Rotten Apple Infects All in the Basket,” in Emerging Infectious Diseases 19, no. 1 (January 2013), briefly discussed 183, illus. (b-w detail) 182, and (color) cover.
Exhibition HistoryNew Orleans, LA, The Isaac Delgado Museum of Arts, "Fêtes de la Palette," November 1962-January 1963, cat. no. 52.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Education Gallery, "Objects of Delight: Still Lifes from the Permanent Collection," October 5, 1990-June 16, 1991.
Albany, NY, Albany Institute of History & Art, "Matters of Taste: Food and Drink in 17th Century Dutch Art and Life, " September 20-December 8, 2002, cat. no. 44, illus. (color).
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