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Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain

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Adrien van der Spelt’s splendid garland displays about 20 floral varieties—including a tulip, a 16th-century import from Persia that would eventually become an icon of Dutch culture. The deceptively realistic blue curtain, painted by Frans van Mieris, refers to the historical strategy for protecting paintings but also to the tale of Parhassius, a skilled Greek artist who fooled his rival into attempting to pull back a curtain painted onto one of his pictures. Examples of collaborative works by Dutch artists from this period are rare, perhaps due to the intense competition created by the region’s thriving art market.

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Medium	oil paint (paint)
Dimensions	63 × 46 Cm
Tags	still lifecurtainsflowers
Certificate	Certificate not provided

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Thu

Jan

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Henric Bugge van Ring (died 1669), Leyden, by 1667 [his inventory of that year, “een stuk met bloemen van der Spelt en een gordijntgen daer bij staende van Mieris” (A piece with flowers by van der Spelt and a little curtain with it by Mieri...

2026 at 08:25 PM

Henric Bugge van Ring (died 1669), Leyden, by 1667 [his inventory of that year, “een stuk met bloemen van der Spelt en een gordijntgen daer bij staende van Mieris” (A piece with flowers by van der Spelt and a little curtain with it by Mieris)]. John Webb, London

Thu

Jan

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Johann David Passavant, Kunstreise durch England und Belgien: nebst einem Bericht über den Bau des Domthurms zu Frankfurt am Main

2026 at 08:25 PM

Johann David Passavant, Kunstreise durch England und Belgien: nebst einem Bericht über den Bau des Domthurms zu Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurt: S. Schmerber 1833), 63.

Thu

Jan

note

Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, vol. 2,

2026 at 08:25 PM

Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, vol. 2, (London: John Murray, 1854), 71.

Thu

Jan

note

sold, Phillips, London, July 8–9, 1828, lot 70 as van der Spelt....

2026 at 08:25 PM

sold, Phillips, London, July 8–9, 1828, lot 70 as van der Spelt. George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (d. 1833), Stafford House, London [described by Passavant 1833]

Thu

Jan

note

Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Works of Art and Artists in England

2026 at 08:25 PM

Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Works of Art and Artists in England (London: John Murray, 1838), 254.

Thu

Jan

note

Piet Bakker, “Frans van Mieris the Elder and His Four Leiden Patrons”, in The Leiden

2026 at 08:25 PM

Piet Bakker, “Frans van Mieris the Elder and His Four Leiden Patrons”, in The Leiden

Thu

Jan

note

Anna Jameson, Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London: Containing Accurate Catalogues, Arranged Alphabetically for Immediate Reference

2026 at 08:25 PM

Anna Jameson, Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London: Containing Accurate Catalogues, Arranged Alphabetically for Immediate Reference (London: Saunders and Otley, 1844), 211.

Thu

Jan

exhibition

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition, Oct. 20, 2022 - Jan. 22, 2023, pl. 3.

2026 at 08:22 PM

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition, Oct. 20, 2022 - Jan. 22, 2023, pl. 3.

Thu

Jan

note

Emily Braun and Elizabeth Cowling, Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition exh. cat.

2026 at 08:22 PM

Emily Braun and Elizabeth Cowling, Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition exh. cat. (New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022), 88-89, 95 pl. 3, 248.

Thu

Jan

note

Sandra Racek, “The Fictitious Fabric of Frans van Mieris,” Examining the Collection

2026 at 08:21 PM

Sandra Racek, “The Fictitious Fabric of Frans van Mieris,” Examining the Collection (blog) Art Institute of Chicago, Jun 8, 2021, https://www.artic.edu/articles/929/the-fictitious-fabric-of-frans-van-mieris.

Thu

Jan

note

Collection Catalogue, ed. Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. and Lara Yeager-Crasselt, 3rd. ed.

2026 at 08:21 PM

Collection Catalogue, ed. Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. and Lara Yeager-Crasselt, 3rd. ed. (New York, The Leiden Collection, 2020- ), n. 58, accessed March 23, 2021, https://theleidencollection.com/essays/frans-van-mieris-the-elder-and-his-four-leiden-patrons.

Thu

Jan

note

José Esparza Chong Cuy and Nina Wexelblatt, Mika Horibuchi. Chicago Works 18

2026 at 08:21 PM

José Esparza Chong Cuy and Nina Wexelblatt, Mika Horibuchi. Chicago Works 18 (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2018), 2-4 (ill.), accessed May 4, 2021, https://mcachicago.org/Publications/Takeaways.

Thu

Jan

note

Sam Segal and Klara Alen, Dutch and Flemish Flower Pieces: Paintings, Drawings and Prints up to the Nineteenth Century

2026 at 08:20 PM

Sam Segal and Klara Alen, Dutch and Flemish Flower Pieces: Paintings, Drawings and Prints up to the Nineteenth Century (Leiden: Brill, 2020), I: 406, 463-4.

Thu

Jan

note

Spike Bucklow, The Anatomy of Riches: Sir Robert Paston's Treasure

2026 at 08:18 PM

Spike Bucklow, The Anatomy of Riches: Sir Robert Paston's Treasure (London: Reaktion Books, 2018), 246 n. 9.

Thu

Jan

note

Andrew Moore, Nathan Fils, and Francesca Vanke, The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World, exh. cat.

2026 at 08:18 PM

Andrew Moore, Nathan Fils, and Francesca Vanke, The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World, exh. cat. (New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art: Norwich, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, 2018), 93, fig. 61.

Thu

Jan

note

Victor Stoichita, “Der Vorhang des Parrhasios: Das Bild der Ähnlichkeit” in Hinter dem Vorhang: Verhüllung und Enthüllung seit der Renaissance - von Tizian bis Christo, exh. cat.

2026 at 08:16 PM

Victor Stoichita, “Der Vorhang des Parrhasios: Das Bild der Ähnlichkeit” in Hinter dem Vorhang: Verhüllung und Enthüllung seit der Renaissance - von Tizian bis Christo, exh. cat. (Munich: Hirmer Verlag GmbH, 2016), 71-72, fig.7.

Thu

Jan

note

Lieke Marije Janssen, Nederlandse bloomstillevenschilders in Berlijn: Nederlandse Hofkunstenaars in dientst van keuvorst Friedrich Wilhelm van Brandenburg

2026 at 08:15 PM

Lieke Marije Janssen, Nederlandse bloomstillevenschilders in Berlijn: Nederlandse Hofkunstenaars in dientst van keuvorst Friedrich Wilhelm van Brandenburg (1620–1688), (MA thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2015), 47-48, fig 10.

Thu

Jan

note

Kathryn Murphy, “Drawing the Curtain,” Apollo 181 no. 629

2026 at 08:15 PM

Kathryn Murphy, “Drawing the Curtain,” Apollo 181 no. 629 (March 2015), 152, 154 (ill.), 156, 158, and fig. 2.

Thu

Jan

note

Robert Fucci, “Parrhasius and the Art of Display: The Illusionistic Curtain in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting,” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 65

2026 at 08:15 PM

Robert Fucci, “Parrhasius and the Art of Display: The Illusionistic Curtain in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting,” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 65 (2015): 162, 169, fig. 12.

Thu

Jan

note

Markus Brüderlin, Hartmut Böhme, and Amy Klement, Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, exh. cat.

2026 at 08:13 PM

Markus Brüderlin, Hartmut Böhme, and Amy Klement, Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, exh. cat. (Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, 2013), 54, fig. 8.

Thu

Jan

note

Susan Merriam, Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings: Still Life, Vision, and the Devotional Image

2026 at 08:12 PM

Susan Merriam, Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings: Still Life, Vision, and the Devotional Image (Farnham and Burlington, 2012), 5, 91, pl. VII.

Thu

Jan

note

Emmanuelle Hénin, “Parrhasios and the Stage Curtain: Theatre, Metapainting and the Idea of Representation in the Seventeenth Century,” Art History 33 no. 2

2026 at 08:10 PM

Emmanuelle Hénin, “Parrhasios and the Stage Curtain: Theatre, Metapainting and the Idea of Representation in the Seventeenth Century,” Art History 33 no. 2 (April 2010): 257, 259, pl. 2.

Thu

Jan

note

Fred Meijer, “Adriaen van der Spelt,” in Old Master Paintings

2026 at 08:07 PM

Fred Meijer, “Adriaen van der Spelt,” in Old Master Paintings (London: Johnny van Haeften, 2007), under cat. no. 36.

Thu

Jan

exhibition

Art Institute of Chicago, The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel Trade and Transformation, September 30, 2006-April 22, 2007, no cat.

2026 at 08:06 PM

Art Institute of Chicago, The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel Trade and Transformation, September 30, 2006-April 22, 2007, no cat.

Thu

Jan

exhibition

The Hague, Mauritshuis, Frans van Mieris 1635-1681, Oct. 1, 2005–Jan. 12, 2006, cat. no. 16; Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, February 26–May 21, 2006.

2026 at 08:05 PM

The Hague, Mauritshuis, Frans van Mieris 1635-1681, Oct. 1, 2005–Jan. 12, 2006, cat. no. 16; Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, February 26–May 21, 2006.

Thu

Jan

note

Stefan Grohé, Stillleben: Meisterwerke der holländischen Malerei

2026 at 08:04 PM

Stefan Grohé, Stillleben: Meisterwerke der holländischen Malerei (New York: Prestel, 2004), 122-123, ill.

Thu

Jan

note

Pamela H. Smith, The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience In the Scientific Revolution

2026 at 08:04 PM

Pamela H. Smith, The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience In the Scientific Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 211, pl. 27.

Thu

Jan

note

Adriaan van der Willigen and Fred G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Painters Working in Oils, 1525-1725

2026 at 08:03 PM

Adriaan van der Willigen and Fred G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Painters Working in Oils, 1525-1725 (Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2003), 188.

Thu

Jan

note

Fred G. Meijer, The Collection of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Paintings Bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward: Catalogue of the Collection of Paintings

2026 at 08:03 PM

Fred G. Meijer, The Collection of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Paintings Bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward: Catalogue of the Collection of Paintings (Zwolle: Waanders, 2003), 295, fig. 79.2.

Thu

Jan

exhibition

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l’Oeil Painting in Europe and America, October 13, 2002–March 2, 2003, cat. no. 10.

2026 at 08:02 PM

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l’Oeil Painting in Europe and America, October 13, 2002–March 2, 2003, cat. no. 10.

Thu

Jan

note

Eric Jan Sluijter, “All striving to adorne their homes with costly pieces”: Two Case Studies of Paintings in Wealthy Interiors’” in Mariët Westermann, Art and Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt, exh. cat.

2026 at 08:01 PM

Eric Jan Sluijter, “All striving to adorne their homes with costly pieces”: Two Case Studies of Paintings in Wealthy Interiors’” in Mariët Westermann, Art and Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt, exh. cat. (Denver, CO: Denver Art Museum; Newark, NJ: The Newark Museum, 2001), 123, 126, fig. 168.

Thu

Jan

note

Jet Pijzel-Dommisse, Het Hollandse Pronkpoppenhuis: Interieur en huishouden in de 17de en 18de eeuw

2026 at 08:00 PM

Jet Pijzel-Dommisse, Het Hollandse Pronkpoppenhuis: Interieur en huishouden in de 17de en 18de eeuw (Zwolle: Waanders, 2000), 126, 411, n. 512.

Thu

Jan

note

Alexander Sturgis and Hollis Clayson, Understanding Paintings: Themes in Art Explored and Explained

2026 at 08:00 PM

Alexander Sturgis and Hollis Clayson, Understanding Paintings: Themes in Art Explored and Explained (New York: Watson-Guptill, 2000), 224, ill., 266.

Fri

Jan

note

Olaf Koester in Illusions: Gijsbrechts, Royal Master of Deception, exh. cat.

1999 at 05:14 PM

Olaf Koester in Illusions: Gijsbrechts, Royal Master of Deception, exh. cat. (Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst), 1999, 24, fig. 3.

Thu

Jan

note

Sybille Ebert-Schifferer, Die Geschichte des Stillebens

1998 at 05:14 PM

Sybille Ebert-Schifferer, Die Geschichte des Stillebens (Munich: Hirmer, 1998), 166 (ill.), 167, 170, fig. 120.

Wed

Jan

note

M. Therese Southgate, The Art of JAMA: One Hundred Covers and Essays from the Journal of the American Medical Association

1997 at 05:14 PM

M. Therese Southgate, The Art of JAMA: One Hundred Covers and Essays from the Journal of the American Medical Association (St. Louis, Missouri: Mosby, 1997), 16–17, ill.

Wed

Jan

note

Catherine Donzel, Le livre des fleurs

1997 at 05:14 PM

Catherine Donzel, Le livre des fleurs (Paris: Rybal, 1997), 56.

Mon

Jan

note

Mariët Westermann, The Amusements of Jan Steen: Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century

1996 at 05:14 PM

Mariët Westermann, The Amusements of Jan Steen: Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century (Zwolle: Waanders, 1996), 28, 42, n. 49, and fig. 10.

Sun

Jan

note

Pieter van Thiel in Framing in the Golden Age: Picture and Frame in 17th-century Holland, translated by

1995 at 05:14 PM

Pieter van Thiel in Framing in the Golden Age: Picture and Frame in 17th-century Holland, translated by (Zwolle: Waanders, 1995), 352, under cat. no. 92.

Sun

Jan

note

Erika Gemar-Koeltzsch, Holländische Stillebenmaler im 17. Jahrhundert, vol. 3, Luca Bild-Lexikon

1995 at 05:14 PM

Erika Gemar-Koeltzsch, Holländische Stillebenmaler im 17. Jahrhundert, vol. 3, Luca Bild-Lexikon (Lingen: Luca Verlag, 1995), 949-50, no. 372/1.

Sat

Jan

note

Alexander Sturgis, Optical Illusions in Art

1994 at 05:14 PM

Alexander Sturgis, Optical Illusions in Art (New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 1994), 4 (ill.).

Wed

Jan

note

Gilbert Creighton, "Grapes, Curtains, Human Beings: The Theory of Missed Mimesis," in Künstlerischer Austausch: Akten des XXVIII. Internationalen Kongresses für Kunstgeschichte, Berlin, 15.-20. Juli 1992

1992 at 05:14 PM

Gilbert Creighton, "Grapes, Curtains, Human Beings: The Theory of Missed Mimesis," in Künstlerischer Austausch: Akten des XXVIII. Internationalen Kongresses für Kunstgeschichte, Berlin, 15.-20. Juli 1992 (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1993), 414 and fig. 7.

Tue

Jan

exhibition

The Hague, Mauritshuis, Great Dutch Paintings from America, Sept. 28, 1990–Jan. 13, 1991, cat. no. 57; San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, February 16, 1991–May 5, 1991.

1991 at 05:14 PM

The Hague, Mauritshuis, Great Dutch Paintings from America, Sept. 28, 1990–Jan. 13, 1991, cat. no. 57; San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, February 16, 1991–May 5, 1991.

Sun

Jan

note

Norbert Schneider, Stilleben: Realität und Symbolik der Dinge: Die Stilleben Malerei frühen Neuzeit

1989 at 05:14 PM

Norbert Schneider, Stilleben: Realität und Symbolik der Dinge: Die Stilleben Malerei frühen Neuzeit (Cologne: Benedikt Taschen, 1989), 13 and 16 (ill.).

Sun

Jan

note

Peter Hecht in De Hollandse fijnschilders: Van Gerard Dou tot Adriaen van der Werff, exh. cat.

1989 at 05:14 PM

Peter Hecht in De Hollandse fijnschilders: Van Gerard Dou tot Adriaen van der Werff, exh. cat. (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1989-90), 42-3 n. 7 under cat. no. 5.

Sun

Jan

note

Alfred Bader “Fooling the Eye,” in The Detective’s Eye Investigating the Old Masters, exh. cat.

1989 at 05:14 PM

Alfred Bader “Fooling the Eye,” in The Detective’s Eye Investigating the Old Masters, exh. cat. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1989), 108 and fig. 2.

Fri

Jan

note

Eric Jan Sluijter, “’Schilders van cleyne, subtile ende curieuse dingen’: Leidse ‘fijnschilders’ in contemporaine bronnen” in Leidse fijnschilders: Van Gerrit Dou tot Frans van Mieris de Jonge

1988 at 05:14 PM

Eric Jan Sluijter, “’Schilders van cleyne, subtile ende curieuse dingen’: Leidse ‘fijnschilders’ in contemporaine bronnen” in Leidse fijnschilders: Van Gerrit Dou tot Frans van Mieris de Jonge (1630-1760), exh. cat. (Leiden: Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, 1988), 39-40, 52–53, 121-22, and fig. 11.

Wed

Jan

note

Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America

1986 at 05:14 PM

Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Netherlands Amnesty Trust, 1986), 52 and fig. 70.

Tue

Jan

note

Harald Marx, Stilleben als Augentäuschung Trompe-loeil

1985 at 05:14 PM

Harald Marx, Stilleben als Augentäuschung Trompe-loeil (Leipzig: VEB E.A. Seeman, 1985), 8 and fig. 4.

Fri

Jan

note

Miriam Milman, Le Trompe-L’Oeil: les illusions de la réalité

1982 at 05:14 PM

Miriam Milman, Le Trompe-L’Oeil: les illusions de la réalité (Geneva: Skira, 1982), 59 (ill.) and dustjacket.