Banquet Piece

Artist Jan Jansz. den Uyl Dutch, 1595/1596–1640

Datecirca 1635

MediumOil on cradled panel

Dimensions31 5/16 x 36 7/8 in. (79.5 x 93.7 cm)
Frame: 41 7/8 x 47 1/2 in. (106.4 x 120.7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.43

On View

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ProvenanceCreated Amsterdam, ca. 1635. Princes of Liechtenstein, Vienna, before 1873–at least 1885, as Willem Claesz. Heda [1]. [Newhouse Galleries, New York, by 1951, as Heda]; sold to NCMA, 1952.

[1] Listed in Liechtenstein catalogues of 1873 and 1885. Does not appear in Liechtenstein catalogue of 1927.
Published ReferencesKatalog der fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bildergalerie Wien (Vienna,1873), no. 805, as W.C. Heda.

Katalog der fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais der Rossau zu Wien (Vienna, 1885), 107, no. 805, as Heda.

Adolf Kronfeld, Führer durch die fürstlich Liechtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie in Wien Vienna: Wolfrum, 1927), 162, as by Willem Claesz. Heda.

Art News 55, no. 2 (April 1956), illus. 38 (as by Heda).

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 51, (as The Breakfast Table by Willem Claesz. Heda), illus. (b-w).

W. Aubrey Cartwright, Guide to Art Museums in the United States (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1958), 148, illus.

Charles W. Stanford, Masterpieces in the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no 20 (as The Breakfast Table by Willem Claesz Heda), illus. (color).

Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 56, illus. (color) 57, (as by Willem Claesz Heda).

E. de Jongh, Still-life in the age of Rembrandt (Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery, 1982), 82.

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. (color) 13.

Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), discussed 11, illus. (b-w) 11, fig. 11.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 90.

Chuck Twardy, "Dutch Gold Sees the Light Again," Raleigh: The News and Observer (February 9, 1996, "What's Up" insert), 21.

Dennis Weller, entry for Banquet Piece, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 97, 100, illus. (color) 100.

Martina Brunner-Bulst, Pieter Claesz.: der Hauptmeister des Haarlemer Stillebens im 17. Jahrhundert (Lingen: Luca Verlag, 2004), 173–74, illus. fig. 59.

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 43, illus. (color) 204, detail (color) cover.

Dennis P. Weller, entry for Banquet Piece, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 220, illus. (color) 221.
Exhibition HistoryBrno, Kunstlerhaus.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 56, illus. (color) 57 (as by Willem Claesz Heda).

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, discussed 11, illus. (b-w) 11, fig. 11.

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.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Reflections on Light: Works from the NCMA Collection,” September 9, 2020–August 15, 2021.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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