A Vanitas Still Life with a Flag, Candlestick, Musical Instruments, Books, Writing Paraphernalia, Globes, and Hourglass

Inscriptions

Signed and dated: Eduwaert / Collier / 1662

Provenance

Count Edward Raczynski, Warsaw and London, by 1929 [according to Zarnowska 1929]; probably sold to Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Lewis Marshall, Charlottesville, VA, and London, by 1961 [according to Chapel Hill 1961]; sold, Bonhams, London, March 28, 1974, lot 28. Private collector, by 1998; sold, Sotheby’s, London, December 17, 1998, lot 39. Sold, Sotheby’s, New York, January 31, 2013, lot 68, to private collector, Greenwich, CT; sold to Salomon Lilian Dutch Old Master Paintings, Amsterdam, November 20, 2019; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

Exhibition history

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, William Ackland Memorial Art Center, The Elizabeth and Fielding Lewis Marshall Collection, March 22–April 23, 1961 (no catalogue). London, Sotheby’s, Exhibition of the Marshall collection : which will be sold by auction by Sotheby & Co. in several parts during 1974: the exhibition to be held in the large galleries 34-35 New Bond Street, London, December 31, 1973–January 8, 1974, no. 19 (ill.).

Publications

E. Zarnowska, La Nature morte hollandaise: Les principaux représentants ses origines, son influence (Brussels/Maastricht: A. A. Stols, 1929), 11 (as, erroneously, dated 1665). Wendela Burgemeister, Salomon Lilian Old Masters 2020 (Amsterdam: Salomon Lilian, 2020), 6-9, no. 1. James Rondeau, ed., Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the collection (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2025), 43 (ill.). James Rondeau, ed., Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2026), 78, 259, no. 53, (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Edwaert Collier (Dutch, 1642–1708)
Date: 1662
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 98 × 129.7 cm (38 1/2 × 51 in.); Framed: 122 × 152.4 cm (48 × 60 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: painting
Style: 17th Century
Place: Holland
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Through prior bequest of Joseph Winterbotham; Rhoades Foundation and Julius Lewis Acquisition Endowment Fund; European Painting Discretionary Fund
Accession no.: 2020.317

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.