Laurens Craen
(Netherlands circa 1620–1665-1671)
- Title
- Still life with imaginary view
- Other titles:
- Still life
Still life with landscape view through curtain - Year
- circa 1645-circa 1650
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
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63.4 x 85.3cm board; 81.0 x 103.7cm frame
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Sir Arthur Downes in memory of his uncle J.F. Downes and of his cousin F.W.A. Downes H.L.A. 1929
- Accession number
- 552
- Location
- 15th–19th c European art
- Provenance (1)
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Sir Arthur Downes (England), England, Gift of Sir Arthur Downes 1929. Letter from Downes 1929 "there is a tradition that the picture was won at cards by a gambling Mytton of former days" (Mytton was a Downes ancestor).
- Bibliography (4)
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Robin Norling (Australia, b.1939) (Author), Peter Pinson (Australia, b.1943), Robin Norling, Sydney, 2010, 16, 17.
Don Anderson (Australia, b.1939) (Editor), Banquet of the mind, Milsons Point, 2000, cover (colour illus.).
Norbert Middlekoop (Author), The golden age of Dutch art: seventeenth century paintings from the Rijksmuseum and Australian collections, Perth, 1997, 54 (colour illus.), 55. cat.no. 15
Peter Tomory (United Kingdom) (Author), Robert Gaston (Author), European Paintings before 1800 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1989, 116 (illus.). no. 356
- Exhibition history (3)
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The golden age of Dutch art: seventeenth century paintings from the Rijksmuseum and Australian collections, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 23 Oct 1997–11 Jan 1998.
The golden age of Dutch art: seventeenth century paintings from the Rijksmuseum and Australian collections, Art Gallery of South Australia, 23 Jan 1998–15 Mar 1998.
The golden age of Dutch art: seventeenth century paintings from the Rijksmuseum and Australian collections, Queensland Art Gallery, 28 Mar 1998–29 May 1998.
