Mattheus Wytmans
Still Life with Fruit
1669-1679
Physical Qualities
Oil on wood panel, 15 1/8 x 11 1/4 in. (38.4 x 28.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Anna Campbell Ellicott Bequest Fund in Memory of her Husband, William M. Ellicott
Object Number
1950.84
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, October 1950; Hans Christoph Freiherr von Tucher (1904–1968), Munich, by descent, 1925; Heinrich Freiherr von Tucher (1853–1925), Vienna by purchase, 1873; Josef Carl Klinkosch (1822–1888), Vienna; Formerly Festetics Collection, Hungary.
K. K. Österreichen Museums, "Ausstellung von Gemälden alter Meister aus dem Privatbesitz Wien,” August to September 1873, no. 33.
Von Frimmel, Theodor. Blätter für Gemäldekunde, vol. 3 (Vienna: Gerold & Co., 1906), p. 14.
BMA News (November 1950), p. 2.
Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Washington D.C: Netherlands-American Amity Trust, 1986), p. 6. (published as "Still with Fruit").
Gerd Renshof, “Palet Workshop: Stilleven naar Mattheus Wijtmans,” Palet: Kunst, Kijken, Doen 349 (2010–2011).
Inscribed: FACE: signed, edge of stone table on left side, "M. Wÿtmans". BACK: signed, "M. Wÿtmans" BACK: labels: "Thieme-Becker, Kunstlerlexicon, Vol. XXVI (1947), p. 339. A. V. Wurzback, Niederlandisches Kunstlerlexicon, Vienna 1910 (Vol. 2, p. 910): Vienna, Auct. Coll. Klinkosch - 1882. "Fruit Piece." " Red seal. Label, "N. O. Miethke Wien, Kunsthandlung, Neur Markt '13" Label, "Ausstellung von Gemalden alter Meister aus dem Privatbesitze Wien (K. K. Ost. Museum) 1873 Nummer der Aufnahme .....50..Katalog-Nr.-Coll.-T.C. Klinkosch"
On View at the BMA
