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Title
Still life with imaginary view
circa 1645-circa 1650
Artist
Laurens Craen
Netherlands
circa 1620 - between 1665-1671
Details
Other Titles
Still life
Still life with landscape view through curtain
Date
circa 1645-circa 1650
Materials used
oil on panel
Dimensions
63.4 x 85.3 cm board; 81.0 x 103.7 cm 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
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Laurens Craen
Still life with imaginary view
Shown in 1 exhibition
Exhibition history
The golden age of Dutch art: seventeenth century paintings from the Rijksmuseum and Australian collections:
- Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth 23 Oct 1997–11 Jan 1998
- Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 23 Jan 1998–15 Mar 1998
- Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane 28 Mar 1998–29 May 1998
Provenance
Sir Arthur Henry Downes, 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).
Referenced in 8 publications
Bibliography
Don Anderson (Editor), Banquet of the mind, Milsons Point, 2000, col illus on cover.
Norbert Middlekoop, The golden age of Dutch art: seventeenth century paintings from the Rijksmuseum and Australian collections, Perth, 1997, pp 54–55, no 15, col illus p 54.
Norbert Middlekoop, Art Bulletin of Victoria, no 38, 'Flowery borrowings: notes on a Dutch still life at the National Gallery of Victoria', Melbourne, 1997, pp 45–50: pp 45, 49 note 3.
Robin Carl Norling and Peter Pinson, Robin Norling, Sydney, 2010, pp 16, 17.
Peter Tomory and Robert Gaston, European Paintings before 1800 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1989, p 116, no 356, illus p 116.
Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales: Minutes 25.5.1923-28.11.1929, Sydney, 1923-1929, p 1040 (22 Feb 1929).
National Art Gallery of New South Wales (annual report of the trustees for the year 1929), Sydney, 1930, p 2.
Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1998 [for the year ended 30 June 1998], Sydney, 1998, p 51. Loan.