1658
oil
panel
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain is a 1658 oil by Adriaen van der Spelt, a Baroque work, depicting Curtain, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
You see a still life with a flower garland and a blue curtain. The flowers are very realistic, with about 20 different types. This painting is also special because it was made with help from another artist, Frans van Mieris, who painted the curtain. Check out the work of Adriaen van der Spelt to see more of his detailed paintings.
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…
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; 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]; by descent to George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland, Stafford House, London (d. 1861) to at least 1854 [described by Waagen 1837 and…
Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, La nature morte de l’antiquité à nos jours, April—June 1952, cat. no. 48, as van der Spelt. New York, Wildenstein, Magic of Flowers in Painting, April 13—May 15, 1954, cat. no. 76, as van der Spelt Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames 1300-1900, Oct. 17—Dec.14, 1986, cat. no. 35, as van der Spelt. 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. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art,…
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Adriaen van der Spelt (1630–1673) was a Dutch artist, born in Leiden.
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