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A Swag of Tulips, a Rose, Carnation, Cornflower, and Forget-Me-Nots Hanging from a Wall with Butterflies., 1678

Catharijna Oostfries

Exhibited by Koetser Gallery

Material Oil on Panel

Dimensions 20 x 31.5 cm

Place of Creation Netherlands

Status Vetted

About the Work

This appealing still life is also a profound rarity, as a document and object of Holland’s Golden Age – being the only floral swag known by Catharijna Oostfries that has come down to us. Oostfries thereby is a most special female artist of Holland’s Golden Age and the present picture is, without question, Oostfries’ most significant and meritorious painted work, of the small corpus that has survived.

Provenance

Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1979;
Christie’s, Amsterdam, November 29, 1988, lot 202, reproduced;
Christie’s, Amsterdam, June 12, 1990, lot 329, reproduced;
Christie’s, Amsterdam, November 14, 1991, lot 58, reproduced;
Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam;
Private Collection, The Netherlands;
L. Steigrad, New York, 1992;
Private Collection, United States, 1992 – 2024;
Koetser Gallery, Zurich.

Literature

Hofstede de Groot Fiches, box no. 190, file no. 1379858;
John Castagno, Old Masters: Signatures and Monograms, 1400 – born 1800, Scarecrow Press,Inc., Lanham, Maryland, 1996, p. 136 (in which the signature and date of this painting is reproduced);
Elizabeth Alice Honig, ‘The Art of Being “Artistic,” Dutch Women’s Creative Practices in the 17th Century’ in Women’s Art Journal, volume 22, Winter 2001, pp. 32, 38, fn. 14;
Adriaan van der Willigen & Fred G. Meijer, “Catharina Oostfries” in A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Painters Working in Oils, 1525 – 1725, Primavera Press, Leiden, 2003, p. 154;
Sam Segal & Klara Alen, “Catharina Oostfries” in Dutch and Flemish Flower Pieces, volume 1, Brill, Hes & De Graaf, Leiden & Boston, 2020, p. 519;
Marloes Huiskamp, “Oostfries, Catharina” in Digital Women’s Lexicon of the Netherlands, Huygens Institute at https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl.