Sprig of White Currants with Insects, Jan van Kessel (I), c. 1653 - c. 1661

Identification

Title(s)

Sprig of White Currants with Insects
Sprig of White Currant with Insects

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-793

Inscriptions / marks

signature, bottom centre: ‘I·V·KESSEL·F·’
inscription, on the reverse: ‘6’

Description

Insecten en vruchten. Een takje witte aalbessen, met verschillende soorten kevers, torren, vliegen en vlinders. In drie rijen van links naar rechts (en van boven naar beneden): zandloopkever, schrijvertje, vlieg, boktor, langpootmug, beervlinder, rups van de bonte bessenvlinder, argusvlinder, bonte bessenvlinder, vlieg, vuurwants, een haft of eendagsvlieg.

Creation

Artist

painter: Jan van Kessel (I)

Dating

c. 1653 - c. 1661

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on copper

Material

Measurements

support: height 10.9 cm × width 14.6 cm
outer size: height 20.1 cm × width 23.6 cm × depth 2.5 cm (support incl. frame)

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase 1882

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; sale, Dr P.A. Borger (†) (Arnhem), H. Joosten (1818-82, Haarlem), Amsterdam (F. Muller), 13 November 1882, no. 55, fl. 71;{Copy RKD, formerly owned by Victor de Stuers; it is illegibly inscribed against this lot, but no. 55 is one in the list of lots written by him on the end paper. A label on the reverse identifies the picture as from the Borger/Josten sale, and as no. 239 of the inventory, without giving further details.} acquired by the museum, February 1884;{NHA, ARS, IS, inv. 164, no. 192 (24 February 1883); NHA, ARS, IS, inv. 164, no. 236 (14 February 1884); NHA, ARS, Kop, inv. 39, p. 342, no. 10 (26 February 1884).} on loan to the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 2004-08

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 314
Onderkruipsels : 'kleyne dierkens' in kunst en wetenschap, Jan de Hond, Eric Jorink, Hans Mulder, Marcel Dicke, Erma Hermens, p. 53, afb. 16
Vlaamse pracht uit het Rijksmuseum in Maastricht, Peter van den Brink

Persistent URL

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