Still Life with Fruit and Glassware

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Artist Juan van der Hamen y León (Spanish, 1596–1631)Spanish, 1596–1631

CultureSpanish

Titles

Still Life with Fruit and Glassware

Date1626

PlaceSpain

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions33 × 44 1/4 in. (83.8 × 112.4 cm)

Credit LineThe Samuel H. Kress Collection

Object number61.78

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

210 Coneway Gallery

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Department

Arts of Europe and the Mediterranean

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenanceMarquis of Leganés, Madrid (d. 1655), before 1655 (inv. No. 353); [with Victor Spark, New York, 1950]; [with David M. Koetser, New York]; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1957 (K2176); on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1953-1961; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to MFAH, 1961.
Exhibition HistoryMusee de l'Orangerie, Paris, La Nature Morte de l'Antiquite a Nos Jours, 1952.

"Spanish Still Life in the Golden Age 1600-1650." Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, May 11-August 4, 1985; Toledo Museum of Art, September 8-November 3, 1985.

Exhibited: No exhibition title; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Feb 15 - Dec 1, 1992(LN:92.13)

"A Gift to America: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection," at North Carolina Museum of Art, February 5 to April 24, 1994; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 17 to August 7, 1994; Seattle Art Museum, September 8 to November 27, 1994; and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, December 17, 1994 to March 4, 1995. (LN:94.5)

“Masterpieces of European Painting from the 15th to 20th Centuries from
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Sarah Campbell Baffer Foundation," touring Japan from April 13 thru October 3, 1999. Exhibition venues:The Museum of Art, Ehime, Matsuyama, Japan, 13 April - 30 May 1999; Chiba Prefectural Art Museum, Chiba, Japan, 5 June - 11 July 1999; Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan, 17 July - 22 August 1999; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, 27 August - 3 October 1999. Exhibition catalogue (in Japanese only).

"Juan vander Hamen y Leon and the Court of Madrid," Patrimonio Nacional, Palacio Real, Madrid, October 22, 2005–January 22, 2006; Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, Texas, March 3–May 28,2006.

"Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 16 December, 2012 - 31 March, 2013.
Published References The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, A Guide to the Collection, Houston, 1981, introduction by William C. Agee, p. 48-49. "The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, A Permanent Legacy," Introduction by Dr. Peter C. Marzio, Houston, 1989. Masterpieces of European Painting from the 15th to 20th Centuries from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, published by the Museum of Art, Ehime; Chiba Prefectural Art Museum; Mie Prefectural Art Museum; Fukuoka Art Museum; and the Yomiuri Shimbun, the Japan Association of Art Museums, 1999. (Exhibition catalogue in Japanese only.) p. 124, illus. p. 125, cat. no. 37. Edgar Peters Bowron and Mary G. Morton, Masterworks of European Painting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000, pp. 57-58, illus. p. 57

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