Bouquet of Flowers and Fruit with Blue Ribbon

Inscriptions

Signed lower left: Maria van Oosterwijck

Provenance

Probably sold through Jean Chretien Kaller, Frankfurt, Mar. 12, 1764, lot 87 to Benedikt Ludwig Schlund [Schlundt] for 17.3 florins [according to analysis of detailed description in auction catalog and list of known works compiled by McIntosh 2010, cat. 19]. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Apr. 24, 1961, lot 122. Sold, Sotheby’s London, Dec. 9, 1992, lot 92, to Salomon Lilian, Amsterdam [this and the following according to email correspondence with Rachel Elwes, Ben Elwes Fine Art, Aug. 26, 2022, in curatorial object file]; sold to a private collection, Amsterdam, 1993 [Mouwes 1993, cat. 11]; consigned to Kunsthandel P. de Boer B.V., Amsterdam, 2018 until at least 2019; returned to private collection, Amsterdam; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

Exhibition history

Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts, Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750, Sep. 26, 2025–Jan. 11, 2026, cat. 165; Ghent, Belgium, Museum of Fine Arts, Mar. 7–May 31, 2026 (Washington only).

Publications

Sylvia Mouwes, Drs Solomon Lilian: Old Master Paintings (Amsterdam: Lilian, 1993), np., no. 11 (ill). Laurentia Ann McIntosh, “Maria van Oosterwyck: The Life and Works of a 17th-Century Dutch Artist,” Ph.D. Diss. (University of Wisconsin Madison, 2010), 150 [cat. 19]. Noud Janssen, “F8. Festoen van bloemen, druiven, sinaasappel en een wijnranksprinkhaan.” Maria van Oosterwijck: Vermaert Konstschilderesse. Accessed August 25, 2022. https://mariavanoosterwijck.nl/oeuvre/bloemstillevens-festoenen-en-guirlandes/f8 Julie Demarle, "A painting by Mélanie de Comoléra acquired by Chicago," La Tribune de l'Art, Novemebr 6, 2024, ill. 2. Jacquelyn N. Coutré, Katrin Dyballa, Virginia Treanor, Maureen Warren, and Laurien van der Werff, "A Curatorial Roundtable on Collecting and Presenting Women Artists of the Low Countries," Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 17, no. 1 (2025), 5. Virginia Treanor and Frederica Van Dam, eds., Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750, exh. cat. (Hannibal Books; Veurne, Belgium, 2025), 262(ill.), 264, cat. 165.

Quick Overview

Artist: Maria van Oosterwijck (Dutch, 1630–1693)
Date: c. 1680
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36 × 28.3 cm (14 1/4 × 11 1/8 in.); Framed: 49.3 × 41.3 × 6.7 cm (19 3/8 × 16 1/4 × 2 5/8 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: still life
Style: 17th Century
Place: Netherlands
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Rhoades Foundation and Julius Lewis Acquisition Endowment Fund; Josephine and John J. Louis Jr. Endowed Acquisition Fund; C. Harker and Mae Svoboda Rhodes Acquisition Fund; John A. Bross Fund in memory of Louise Smith Bross
Accession no.: 2022.1437

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