Cavaliers and Ladies at a Table

Artist Unknown Dutch Painter, active 1650-1675, or later

Datecirca 1660–1670

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions18 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (47 x 47 cm)
Frame: 27 3/4 x 27 7/8 x 3 1/2 in. (70.5 x 70.8 x 8.9 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.52

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ProvenanceCreated Netherlands, ca. 1660–1670. E. Bolton, London, before 1923; [Paul Bottenweiser Gallery, New York and Berlin, by 1923]; Art Institute of Chicago, purchased 1923, deaccessioned 1949; [E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1952.

Published ReferencesW.A.P., "Elegant Company," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 17 (1923), 25-28, illus. H. Gerson, Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler, Vol. 25, V. Thieme and F. Becker, eds. (Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1931), 556. A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute, 1932), no. 23.10, illus. 24 (as Elegant Company). A Century of Progress (exhibition catalogue) (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), cat. no. 69, illus. E. Plietzsch, "Jacob Ochtervelt," Pantheon no. 20 (December 1937), 369, illus. A[ry] B[ob] de Vries, Jan Vermeer van Delft (Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, 1939), 63, illus. no. 26, opp. 65. (Paris ed., 1948), 55, illus. pl. 26. W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 62, illus. (b-w). Raleigh: The News and Observer (August 12, 1956), illus. Gilberte Martin-Méry, L'Europe et la découverte du monde. Bordeaux (1960), 17, illus. pl. 25. Eduard Plietzsch, Holländische und flämische Maler des XVII Jahrh. (Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1960), 67, illus. fig. 103 (as Tischgesellschaft). Inaugural Exhibition (exhibition catalogue) (St. Petersburg, FL: Museum of Fine Arts, 1965), cat. no. 58, illus. The Age of Rembrandt (exhibition catalogue) (San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1967), cat. no. 87, illus. Ben F. Williams, "À Raleigh, Caroline du Nord," L'Oeil 155 (November 1967), illus. 6. Paintings of 17th Century Dutch Interiors (exhibition catalogue) (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum, 1967), cat. no. 16, illus. Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 60, illus. (b-w) 61. Susan Donahue Kuretsky, The Paintings of Jacob Ochtervelt: (1634 -1682) with Catalogue Raisonné (Oxford: Phaidon, 1979), part 2: "Paintings of Disputed Attribution," no. D-6, 100, illus. 206. 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) 106. Onno Ydema, Carpets and Their Datings in Netherlandish Paintings (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collector's Club Ltd, 1991), listed no. 289 (as Merry Company at a Table). Jo Allen and Gil Leebrick, eds., Robert Lee Humber: A Collector Creates (exhibition catalogue) (Greenville, NC: The College of Arts and Sciences and The School of Art, East Carolina University, 1996), illus. (color) 40. Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 14, illus. (color) 60.

Exhibition HistoryChicago, IL, The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress," June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. no. 69, illus. Atlanta, GA, High Museum of Art, "Painting and Sculpture: Gothic to Surrealism," January 8-February 5, 1950, cat. no. 22. Buffalo, NY, Albright Art Gallery, "Bosch to Beckmann: Paintings from Five Centuries," April 15-May 14, 1950, cat. no. 8, illus. Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, "Life in Seventeenth Century Holland," November 21, 1950-January 14, 1951, cat. no. 37, illus. pl. VIII. Wilmington, DE, The Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, "Seventeenth Century Dutch Masters," May 6-July 7, 1951, no. 26. Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts, "L'Europe et la découverte du monde," May 20-July 31, 1960, cat. no. 58. St. Petersburg, FL, Museum of Fine Arts, "Inaugural Exhibition," February 7-March 7, 1965, cat. no. 58, illus. Sarasota, FL, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, "Hidden Baroque Allegories", November 1-28, 1965. San Francisco, CA, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, "The Age of Rembrandt," October 10-November 13, 1966; Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, November 26, 1966-January 8, 1967; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, January 21-March 5, 1967, cat. no. 87, illus. Kansas City, MO, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum, "Paintings of 17th Century Dutch Interiors," December 1, 1967-January 7, 1968, cat. no. 16, illus. Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 60, illus. (b-w) 61. Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "Masterpieces from the North Carolina Museum of Art," March 11-April 13, 1975. Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt," October 25, 1986-February 15, 1987. Durham, NC, Duke University Museum of Art, "Ten Dutch and Flemish Paintings," October 1995-May 1996. Greenville, NC, East Carolina University, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, "Robert Lee Humber: A Collector Creates," November 1-23, 1996, illus. (color) 40.

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