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Catharijna Oostfries
Nieuwkoop 1636 - Alkmaar 1708
A Swag of Tulips, a Rose, Carnation, Cornflower, and Forget-Me-Nots Hanging from a Wall with Butterflies.
Oil on Panel, 20 x 31.5 cm
Signed and dated lower right: Catharijna Oostvries / Fecit 1678 8/12
ENQUIRIES
Provenance
Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1979;
Christie’s, Amsterdam, November 29, 1988, lot 202, reproduced;
Christie’s, Amsterdam, June 12, 1990, lot 329, reproduced;
Christie’s, Amsterdam, November 14, 1991, lot 58, reproduced;
Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam;
Private Collection, The Netherlands;
L. Steigrad, New York, 1992;
Private Collection, United States, 1992 – 2024;
Koetser Gallery, Zurich.
Hofstede de Groot Fiches, box no. 190, file no. 1379858;
John Castagno, Old Masters: Signatures and Monograms, 1400 – born 1800, Scarecrow Press,Inc., Lanham, Maryland, 1996, p. 136 (in which the signature and date of this painting is reproduced);
Elizabeth Alice Honig, ‘The Art of Being “Artistic,” Dutch Women’s Creative Practices in the 17th Century’ in Women’s Art Journal, volume 22, Winter 2001, pp. 32, 38, fn. 14;
Adriaan van der Willigen & Fred G. Meijer, “Catharina Oostfries” in A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Painters Working in Oils, 1525 – 1725, Primavera Press, Leiden, 2003, p. 154;
Sam Segal & Klara Alen, “Catharina Oostfries” in Dutch and Flemish Flower Pieces, volume 1, Brill, Hes & De Graaf, Leiden & Boston, 2020, p. 519;
Marloes Huiskamp, “Oostfries, Catharina” in Digital Women’s Lexicon of the Netherlands, Huygens Institute at https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl.
