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Still Life
Inscriptions
Inscribed in ligature: PC (on knife blade)
Exhibition history
Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, "Condition; Excellent," March - April 1951, cat. 8.
Publications
Art Institute of Chicago, Report for the Year 1935 in Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 30, Part III (1936), pp. 23, ill., 36. N. R. A. Vroom, De schilders van het monochrome banketje (Amsterdam, 1945), pp. 17-18, 198, no. 19, fig. 5. Ingvar Bergström, Studier i holländskt stillebenmåleri under 1600-talet (Gothenburg, 1947), p. 124. “In the Lowlands…Genius & Realism,” Masterpieces 1 (1950), p. 64 (ill). “Condition: Excellent,” Worcester Art Museum News Bulletin and Calendar 16 (1951) p. 25 (ill). Ingvar Bergström, Dutch Still-life Painting in the Seventeenth Century (London, 1956), pp. 118, 305. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 78 (ill.), p. 186. N. R. A. Vroom, A Modest Message as intimated by the painters of the 'Monochrome Banketje' vol. 1 (Schiedam, 1980), pp. 89-91, fig. 119. Alberto Veco, Simposio: cerimonie e apparati, exh. cat., Galleria Lorenzelli, Bergamo, 1983, p. 176. Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1986), p. 52. Claus Grimm, Stilleben. Die niederländischen und deutschen Meister (Stuttgart and Zurich, 1988), p. 108, figs. 53, 54. Sam Segal, A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands, 1600-1700 (The Hague, 1988), p. 215, n. 7. Walter S. Melion, Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel van Mander's Schilder-boeck (Chicago, 1991), pp. 73-74, fig. 62 (ill.). Pamela Hibbs Decoteau, Clara Peeters, 1594 - ca. 1640 (Freren, 1992), pp. 157-158, fig. 61. Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg. Die Sammlung Herzog Alfreds von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1844-1900) (Lingen, 1994), p. 312, fig. 66. Erika Gemar-Koeltzsch, Holländische Stillebenmaler im 17. Jahrhundert, vol. 2, Lingen, 1995, p. 227, no. 76/2, ill. p. 228. Sybille Ebert-Schifferer, Die Geschichte des Stillebens, Munich, 1998, pp. 122-123, fig. 87. M. Brunner-Bulst, "Claesz. (Claessen), Pieter" in Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, vol. 19, Munich and Leipzig, 1998, p. 354. Martina Brunner-Bulst in Johnny Van Haeften Gallery, Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings (London, 1999), n.p., under no. 3, ill. Henry Duval Gregory V, Tabletop Still Lifes in Haarlem, c. 1610-1660: A Study of the Relationships Between Form and Content (Dissertation, Universty of Maryland, Collge Park, 2003), 163, 164fn74, 428, fig. 76. Martina Brunner-Bulst, Pieter Claesz., der Hauptmeister des Haarlemer Stillebens im 17. Jahrhundert (Lingen, 2004), pp. 150, 208, no. 6, ill. Fred G. Meijer, review of Brunner-Bulst, Pieter Claesz. der Hauptmeister des Haarlemer Stillebens im 17. Jahrhundert and Pieter Biesboer et al., Pieter Claesz, Master of Haarlem Still Life in Oud Holland 120 (2007), p. 139. Fred Meijer, “Jan Davidsz. de Heem 1606-1684” (Thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2016), p. 39, fig. 15. Fred Meijer, Jan Davidsz. de Heem 1606-1684 (Zwolle, 2024), p. 42, fig. 25. Alexander Thijs, Nicolaes Gillis (Antwerpen 1593-1630) Pionier van her Haarlemse voedsel- en bloemstilleven (Leiden, 2024), pp. 44, 139, 171, 186-189, cat. C18.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pieter Claesz (Dutch, 1596/97–1660)
- Date
- c. 1625
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 48 × 76.9 cm (18 7/8 × 30 1/4 in.); Framed: 76.2 × 108.8 × 7 cm (30 × 41 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on panel
- Style
- 17th Century
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Simeon B. Williams Fund
- Accession no.
- 1935.300
Provenance
Probably Cassirer, Amsterdam [the mounts of photos in both the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, and the Witt Library, London, are marked Cassirer, Amsterdam, 1939, though the picture was at the Art Institute from late 1935; the Witt photo is also annotated “Worcester, Mass.”; see also Vroom 1945 and Bergstrom 1956]. M. Knoedler & Co., New York by 1935 [receipt dated September 9, 1935 in Registrar’s office; the number A 1559 printed on a label on the back may be the Knoedler’s stock number]; sold to the Art Institute, 1935.
More by Pieter Claesz in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00000807
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