ADRIAEN COORTE (IJZENDIJKE C. 1659⁄64-1707 VLISSINGEN)
ADRIAEN COORTE (IJZENDIJKE C. 1659⁄64-1707 VLISSINGEN)
ADRIAEN COORTE (IJZENDIJKE C. 1659⁄64-1707 VLISSINGEN)
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DUTCH AND FLEMISH MASTERPIECES FROM A DISTINGUISHED CANADIAN COLLECTION (LOTS 4, 16, 20 & 22)
ADRIAEN COORTE (IJZENDIJKE C. 1659⁄64-1707 VLISSINGEN)

A bowl of wild strawberries with gooseberries on a stone ledge

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ADRIAEN COORTE (IJZENDIJKE C. 1659⁄64-1707 VLISSINGEN)
A bowl of wild strawberries with gooseberries on a stone ledge
signed and dated 'A · Coorte · 1696' (lower right, on the ledge)
oil on canvas
13 ¼ x 9 ¾ in. (33.5 x 24.7 cm.)
Provenance
Baroness Irene von der Becke-Klüchtzner (1894-1977), Cologne; [The Property of a Gentleman], Christie's, London, 8 July 1977, lot 85.
with Essoldo Fine Art, London, 1977.
with Galerie J. Kraus, London, 1980.
Anonymous sale [Property from a Private Collection]; Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1993, lot 54, where acquired by the following,
with David Koetser Gallery, Zurich, where acquired in March 1994 by,
Willem Baron van Dedem (1929-2015), London.
with Johnny Van Haeften, London, 2007, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
L.J. Bol, Adriaen Coorte: A Unique Late Seventeenth Century Dutch Still-Life Painter, Assen, 1977, pp. 43 and 67-8.
S. Segal, 'Still-lifes by Middelburg painters', in Masters of Middelburg, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, 1984, pp. 90 and 92, note 10.
F.A. van Braam et al., World Collector's Annuary: Alphabetical Classification of Paintings, Watercolours, Pastels and Drawings Sold at Auction, XXIX, Harderwijk, 1977, p. 63.
J. Herbert, ed., Christie's Review of the Season, New York, 1977, p. 49.
'Advert - J. Kraus', Apollo, CLXXIII, June 1980, p. 173.
L.J. Bol, 'Goede onbekenden': hedendaagse herkenning en waardering van verscholen, voorbijgezien en onderschat talent, Mijdrecht, 1982, p. 10.
F.A. van Braam et al., World Collector's Annuary: Alphabetical Classification of Paintings, Watercolours, Pastels and Drawings Sold at Auction, XXXIII, Harderwijk, 1993-4, p. 83.
P.C. Sutton, Dutch and Flemish Paintings: The Collection of Willem Baron van Dedem, London, 2002, pp. 12, 84-7, no. 13, illustrated.
T. Dibbits, 'Aardbeien, abrikozen, kruisbessen en perziken: vier stillevens van Adriaen Coorte', Bulletin van Het Rijksmuseum, LII, 2004, pp. 161 and 165, note 24.
T. Dibbits, 'Still lifes by Adriaen Coorte', Mauritshuis in Focus, XVII, 2004, pp. 25 and 26.
'Adriaen S. Coorte', Benezit Dictionary of Artists, III, Paris, 2006, p. 1357.
Q. Buvelot, The still lifes of Adriaen Coorte (active c.1683-1707): With oeuvre catalogue, exhibition catalogue, Zwolle, 2008, pp. 42, 57, 64, 74-5, note 22, 95-7, no. 23, illustrated.
A.K. Wheelock Jr., Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, NGA Online Editions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2014, pp. 190-1 and 193.
Exhibited
Frankfurt am Main, Städel Museum and Basel, Kunstmuseum, Die Magie der Dinge: Stilllebenmalerei 1500-1800, 20 March 2008-4 January 2009, no. 92 (catalogue entry by J. Sander).

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