Bouquet of Flowers and Fruit with Blue Ribbon
Maria van Oosterwijck (Dutch, 1630–1693)
c. 1680
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
This seemingly straightforward scene by Maria van Oosterwijck, one of the few known female painters in the Dutch Republic, in fact depicts a fantastical image. The 11 species of flora, accompanied by a single grasshopper and hung from a nail by a ribbon, do not all blossom in the same season. Additionally, several of these varieties are not indigenous to Northern Europe. The arrangement thus reflects the global markets in which the Dutch participated: the sweet sultan (the orange flower at upper left) would have been imported from Turkey, while the bitter orange (beneath the ribbon at center) originated in the Mediterranean. Oosterwijck was renowned for such paintings of suspended bouquets.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 36 × 28.3 cm (14 1/4 × 11 1/8 in.)
Museum record · 3 owners
Provenance
- Probably sold through Jean Chretien Kaller, Frankfurt, Mar. 12, 1764, lot 87 to Benedikt Ludwig Schlund for 17.3 florins.
- Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Apr. 24, 1961, lot 122.
- Sold, Sotheby’s London, Dec. 9, 1992, lot 92, to Salomon Lilian, Amsterdam; sold to a private collection, Amsterdam, 1993; consigned to Kunsthandel P. de Boer B.V., Amsterdam, 2018 until at least 2019; returned to private collection, Amsterdam; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
