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Adriaen Coorte

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small arrangements of fruits, vegetables, or shells on a stone slab, lit from above, with the dark background typical of still lifes earlier in the century. Instead of the Chinese or silver vessels favoured by his contemporaries, his tableware is very basic pottery. "Objects and light are studied intensely, and are painted with a wondrous tenderness". Neither his birth nor death date is certain, and archival evidence only exists in Middelburg for his membership in the
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From 1683 he seems to have returned to Middelburg, where he set up a workshop and signed his small, carefully balanced minimalist still lifes. He often painted on paper that was glued to a wooden panel. About 80 signed works by him have been catalogued, and nearly all of them follow the same pattern;
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there from 1695 onwards, when he was fined for selling a painting without being a member of the guild. His works appear frequently in contemporary Middelburg taxation inventories
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Three peaches on a stone ledge with a Painted Lady butterfly, oil on paper, 31.3 x 23.3 cm, monogrammed "AC" and dated 1693-1695 based on compositional characteristics
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Coorte was apparently not well known to his contemporaries outside the small city of Middelburg and, like
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a century before, he was almost entirely forgotten until the 1950s, when the Dutch art historian
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revived his reputation, beginning with an article in 1952, and finally publishing the first
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Very little is known of his life, but he is assumed to have been born and died in
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Adriaen Coorte: A Unique Late 17th Century Dutch Still Life Painter
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A new price record for the artist was set at the 3 December 2014
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Adriaen Coorte, four still lifes in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
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Three peaches on a stone ledge with a red admiral butterfly
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but he may also have been influenced by older painters:
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Dutch Golden Age painter
still lifes
Middelburg
Melchior d'Hondecoeter
Amsterdam
Pelican and ducks in a mountain landscape, by Coorte
The Floating Feather, with the same pelican, by Hondecoeter
Painting with a Hoopoe, by Coorte
Hoopoe
Painting with a similar Hoopoe, by Hondecoeter
Guild of St. Luke
List of paintings by Adriaen Coorte

Vermeer
Laurens J. Bol
monograph
catalogue raisonné
Dordrechts Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Strawberries in a Stone Jar, sold 1 December 2009
Still life with peach and two apricots, sold 1 December 2009
Sotheby's
£
Three peaches on a stone ledge with a Painted Lady butterfly, oil on paper, 31.3 x 23.3 cm, monogrammed "AC" and dated 1693-1695 based on compositional characteristics
Still Life with Asparagus and Red Currants Nat. Gallery of Art (1696)
Strawberries Mauritshuis (1696)
Asparagus with strawberries and gooseberries Dordrechts Museum (1698)
Still Life with Three Medlars(1705)
Bodegones

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