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Trompe-l’oeil with a bust of Adonis

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Description

ObjectFormType: 

  • Artwork

ObjectMaterialType: 

  • Oil paint

ObjectTechniqueType: 

  • oil paint on canvas

Colours: 

  • Brown & Cream

Inscriptions: 

Signed by the Artist, bottom right

DimensionComment: 

73.7 x 60 cm including the frame
History

ObjectAge: 

407 years 7 months ago

AgeComment: 

Painted by Caesar van Everdingen his lifetime (1617-1678)

ObjectUser: 

Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar

PlaceOfUse: 

  • South Africa

Provenance: 

Collection of Sir Hugh Lane, London; sold to Sir Max Michaelis, 1913; donated to the South African nation by Sir Max Michaelis, 1914.

This painting represents a bust of Adonis crowned with laurel and cloaked with a pink drapery. The pendant to this work hangs in the Mauritshuis in The Hague.

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