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Feb 9, 2007

Gooseberries on a Table

1701

Adriaen Coorte

(Dutch, 1660–1707)

Netherlands, early 18th Century

Oil on paper mounted on wood

Framed: 45.5 x 38.5 x 4.5 cm (17 15/16 x 15 3/16 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 29.7 x 22.8 cm (11 11/16 x 9 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1987.32

Location

213 Dutch Painting

Description

Coorte worked in Middelburg, a wealthy maritime city in the southern part of the Netherlands that fostered a poetic, scientific, and spiritual examination of the natural world. Gooseberries—a modest, local pleasure—could be picked in the wild, although Dutch gardeners in the 1600s were the first to cultivate them to improve their taste. The strong illumination gives the plant a stark grandeur, despite the small scale, and the dark background emphasizes the fruit's delicate translucency. The dessicated flower petals and waxy leaves contrast with the succulent gooseberries, with their skin on the verge of bursting.

Inscriptions

Inscription

Signed lower left: "A Coorte / 1701"

Provenance

-1907

Auguste Coster [d. 1907], Brussels

1907

(Le Roy, Brussels, Coster sale, April 4-6, 1907, lot 69, possibly sold to Max Massot) ¹

-1964

Max Massot, Belgium, sold to P. de Boer

1964

(Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, sold to Mrs. Wulf, The Hague)1 ²

1964-1975

Mrs. Wulf, The Hague, exchanged with P. de Boer for a marine painting by J. van Diest

1975

(Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, sold to Johnny Oppenheimer)

1975-1986

Johnny Oppenheimer, Tönnersjö, Eldsberga, Sweden, consigned to Charles Roelofsz Gallery, Amsterdam1 ³

1986

(Charles Roelofsz Gallery, Amsterdam)

1986

(Sam Nijstad, The Hague, and K. Waterman Gallery, Amsterdam, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1987-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Provenance Footnotes

¹The painting is attributed to “A. Coorbe" [sic] and is entitled "Groseilles" in the sale catalogue.

²Piet de Boer was an Amsterdam dealer who was a close contact of Hofer, Posse, Lohse, Miedl and other Nazi art agents. There is nothing in this painting's chain of ownership, however, to indicate any dubious World War II-era provenance, nor does the painting appear in any databases of Nazi-looted art or records pertaining to Nazi looting activities.

³Oppenheimer also consigned the painting to P. de Boer in 1984; however, it did not sell and remained in Oppenheimer's possession.

Citations

Buvelot, Quentin. The still lifes of Adriaen Coorte (active c.1683-1707): with oeuvre catalogue. The Hague: Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, 2008.

Hilde de Boer-Venverloo, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, May 15, 2013, in CMA curatorial file.

Chong, Alan, W T. Kloek, and Celeste Brusati. Still-life Paintings from the Netherlands, 1550-1720. Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 1999. Referenced: cat. no. 75, p. 277-278.

Kloek, Wouter. "L'Age d'Or de la Nature Mortes Néerlandaise." L'Objet d'Art 337, no. 3 (June 1999): 28-40. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 30-31

Wilmerding, John. Signs of the Artist: Signatures and Self-Expression in American Paintings. New Haven, CT: B Yale University Press, 2003. Reproduced: p. 22, fig. 18

Sander, Jochen. The Magic of Things: Still-Life Painting, 1500-1800. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008. Mentioned: p. 340; Reproduced: p. 347, fig. 76

Grennan, Eamon. Matter of Fact. Saint Paul, Minn: Graywolf Press, 2008. Reproduced: cover

Smith, Jeanette M. “Gooseberries on a Table.” JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association 310, no. 10 (September 11, 2013): 1008-1009. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 1008-1009

Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 192

Van Niekerk, Marlene. Gesant van die mispels: gedigte by skilderye van Adriaen Coorte ca. 1659-1707. 2017. Reproduced: p. 14 & 60, no. 3

Exhibition history

The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).

Still-Life Paintings from the Netherlands, 1550-1720. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (June 19-September 19, 1999); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 31, 1999-January 9, 2000).

Small Wonders: Dutch Still Lifes by Adriaen Coorte. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (June 29-September 28, 2003).

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