Still Life with Fowl and Pomegranates

Artist Alejandro de Loarte Spanish, b. 1595/1600; d. 1626, Toledo

Datecirca 1625

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions19 x 23 in. (48.3 x 58.4 cm)
Frame: 25 1/4 x 29 1/4 in. (64.1 x 74.3 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number64.6.1

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ProvenanceNystad Antiquars, The Hague; sold to NCMA, 1964.Published ReferencesThe Golden Age of Spanish Still-Life Painting (exhibition catalogue) (Newark, NJ: Newark Museum of Art, 1964), cat. no. 16, illus.

The Art Quarterly 27, no. 3 (1964), 373.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67?), listed 81.

Art of Spain (exhibition catalogue) (Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1971), illus. 12.

Don Denny, Sánchez Cotán, "Still Life with Carrots and Cardoon," Pantheon 30 (1972), 50, illus. 53.

Ingvar Bergstrom, ed. (et al), Natura in Posa: La Grande Stagionie della Natura Morta Europea (Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1977),199, illus.

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) 223.

Edward J. Sullivan, Catalogue of Spanish Paintings (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), cat. no. 13, illus. (b-w) 44.

Claus Grimm, Stilleben (Stuttgart: Belser Verlag, 1995), 140, illus. (color).

Exhibition HistoryDelft, Mus. Prinsenhof, "The Antique Dealer's Fair," 8-9/1962.

Newark, NJ, Newark Museum of Art, "The Golden Age of Spanish Still-Life Painting," December 10, 1964-January 26, 1965, cat. no. 16, illus.

Birmingham, AL, Birmingham Museum of Art, "Art of Spain," March 19-April 4, 1971, illus. 12.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Spanish Still-Life Paintings from the Permanent Collection" (collateral exhibition to; "Luis Melendez: Spanish Still-Life Painter of the Eighteenth Century"), January 12-March 10, 1985.
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