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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
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.
Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1998 [for the year ended 30 June 1998], Sydney, 1998, p 51. Loan.
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.
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.
National Art Gallery of New South Wales (annual report of the trustees for the year 1929), Sydney, 1930, p 2.
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).
Banquet of the mind, Milsons Point, 2000, col illus on cover.