About This Artwork

Louise Moillon
French, 1610–1696

Still Life with a Basket of Fruit and a Bunch of Asparagus, 1630

Oil on panel
21 x 28 1/2 in. (53.3 x 71.3 cm)
Inscribed lower right: Louyse’ Moillon. 1630
Wirt D. Walker Fund, 1948.78

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, "La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines," 29 January–26 April 1982, no. 73, cat. by Pierre Rosenberg; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26 May–22 August 1982, and Art Institute of Chicago, 18 September–28 November 1982.

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 316.

Michel Faré, La Nature morte en France: Son Histoire et son évolution du XVIIe au XXe siècle (Geneva, 1962), vol. 2, fig. 33.

Michel Faré, Le Grand Siècle de la nature morte en France: Le XVIIe Siècle (Fribourg and Paris, 1974), p. 55 (ill.).

James A. Schinneller, Art: Search and Self-Discovery, 3rd ed. (Worcester, Mass., 1975), p. 28 (ill.).

Ann Sutherland Harris in Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Women Artists: 1550–1950, exh. cat., 1976, p. 141.

Claude Lesné, "La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines," Le Petit Journal des grandes expositions 116 (1982), n.p. (ill.).

J. V. Hantz, "La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines," L’Amateur d’art 35, no. 680 (1982), p. 19.

Erich Schleier, "La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines: France in the Golden Age, part 2," Kunstchronik 36 (1983), p. 232.

André Chastel, Musica depicta (Milan, 1984), pp. 30, 100–01 (ill.).

Christopher Wright, The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century (London, 1985), p. 233.

Beatrijs Brenninkmeyer-de Rooij in Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, De Rembrandt à Vermeer: Les Peintres hollandais au Mauritshuis de La Haye, exh. cat., 1986, p. 62, fig. 29.

Gerardo Casale, Giovanna Garzoni: "Insigne minatrice," 1600–1670 (Milan and Rome, 1991), p. 28 (ill.).

Christopher Wright, comp., The World's Master Paintings from the Early Renaissance to the Present Day: A Comprehensive Listing of Works by 1,300 Painters and a Complete Guide to Their Locations Worldwide (New York, 1991), vol. 1, p. 246; vol. 2, pp. 62, 427.

Copenhagen, Statens Museum fur Kunst, Fransk Guldalder: Poussin og Claude og maleriet I det 17. Århundredes Frankig, exh. cat. by Humphrey Wine and Olaf Koester, 1992, p. 50, fig. 17, p. 54.

James Yood, Feasting: A Celebration of Food in Art (New York, 1992), p. 7, no. 3 (ill.).

Alain Mérot, La Peinture française au XVIIe siècle (Paris, 1994), pp. 238–39 (ill.).

Susan Wise in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 106–09 (ill.).

Ownership History

Gertrude D. Webster, Mass., probably to 1947 [Kleinberger archives, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]. Sold, Plaza Art Galleries, New York, 6–8 November 1947, no. 234, as Dutch School, to Kleinberger, New York [annotated sale cat. in Frick Art Reference Library, New York]; sold by Kleinberger to the Art Institute through the Wirt D. Walker Fund, 1948.