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    Still Life with a Basket of Fruit and a Bunch of Asparagus
    Louise Moillon. Still Life with a Basket of Fruit and a Bunch of Asparagus, 1630. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
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    Still Life with a Basket of Fruit and a Bunch of Asparagus

    by Louise Moillon

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed lower right: Louyse’ Moillon. 1630

    Provenance

    Gertrude D. Webster, Mass., probably to 1947 [Kleinberger archives, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]. Sold, Plaza Art Galleries, New York, 6–8 November 1947, no. 234, as Dutch School, to Kleinberger, New York [annotated sale cat. in Frick Art Reference Library, New York]; sold by Kleinberger to the Art Institute through the Wirt D. Walker Fund, 1948.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines, Jan. 29 – Apr. 26, 1982, cat. 73; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 26 – Aug. 22, 1982; Art Institute of Chicago, Sep. 18 – Nov. 28, 1982. Baltimore Museum of Art, Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800, Oct. 1, 2023 - Jan. 7, 2024, cat. 115; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Mar. 1, 2024 - July 1, 2024.

    Publications

    Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), 316. Michel Faré, La Nature morte en France: Son Histoire et son évolution du XVIIe au XXe siècle (Geneva, 1962), vol. 2, fig. 33. Michel Faré, Le Grand Siècle de la nature morte en France: Le XVIIe Siècle (Fribourg and Paris, 1974), 55 (ill.). James A. Schinneller, Art: Search and Self-Discovery, 3rd ed. (Worcester, Mass., 1975), 28 (ill.). Ann Sutherland Harris in Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Women Artists: 1550–1950, exh. cat. (1976), 141. Claude Lesné, "La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines," Le Petit Journal des grandes expositions 116 (1982), n.p. (ill.). J. V. Hantz, "La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines," L’Amateur d’art 35, no. 680 (1982), 19. Erich Schleier, "La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines: France in the Golden Age, part 2," Kunstchronik 36 (1983), 232. André Chastel, Musica depicta (Milan, 1984), 30, 100–01 (ill.). Christopher Wright, The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century (London, 1985), 233. Beatrijs Brenninkmeyer-de Rooij in Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, De Rembrandt à Vermeer: Les Peintres hollandais au Mauritshuis de La Haye, exh. cat. (1986), 62, fig. 29. Gerardo Casale, Giovanna Garzoni: "Insigne minatrice," 1600–1670 (Milan and Rome, 1991), 28 (ill.). Christopher Wright, comp., The World's Master Paintings from the Early Renaissance to the Present Day: A Comprehensive Listing of Works by 1,300 Painters and a Complete Guide to Their Locations Worldwide (New York, 1991), vol. 1, p. 246; vol. 2, pp. 62, 427. Copenhagen, Statens Museum fur Kunst, Fransk Guldalder: Poussin og Claude og maleriet I det 17. Århundredes Frankig, exh. cat. by Humphrey Wine and Olaf Koester, (1992), 50, fig. 17, p. 54. James Yood, Feasting: A Celebration of Food in Art (New York, 1992), 7, no. 3 (ill.). Alain Mérot, La Peinture française au XVIIe siècle (Paris, 1994), 238–39 (ill.). Susan Wise in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), 106–09 (ill.). Andaleeb Badiee Banta and Alexa Greist, eds., Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800, exh. cat. (Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane Editions, 2023), 8 (detail ill.), 211, 213 cat. 115.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Louise Moillon (French, 1610–1696)
    Date
    1630
    Medium
    Oil on panel
    Dimensions
    53.3 × 71.3 cm (21 × 28 1/2 in.); Framed: 67.7 × 85.5 cm (26 5/8 × 33 5/8 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on panel
    Style
    17th Century
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Wirt D. Walker Fund
    Accession no.
    1948.78

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