Bartolomeo Bettera
Still Life with Musical Instruments

CultureItalian
Titles
  • Still Life with Musical Instruments
DateProbably 1680s
PlaceItaly
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 42 × 58 1/2 in. (106.7 × 148.6 cm)
Frame (outer): 45 5/8 × 64 1/4 × 3 in. (115.9 × 163.2 × 7.6 cm)
Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.1981.4
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
217 Blaffer Galleries
On view

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Object Type
Provenance[Julius Böhler (fourth generation), Munich, presumably acquired the painting on commission from the Amsterdam/New York art dealer, Jon Nicholas Streep (1918–1975)]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 1981.

Exhibition History"Picturing the Senses in European Art," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 10–July 17, 2011.

"The Art and Science of Optics," The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, Claremont, California, November 12, 2022–March 26, 2023.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed lower right, on label: “BARTOL˚ BETTERA”

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