Adriaen Coorte

Nature Morte de Fraises

Adriaen Coorte  Stilleven met bosaardbeien Still Life with Wild Strawberries
Adriaen Coorte  Stilleven met bosaardbeien Still Life with Wild Strawberries
Adriaen Coorte  Stilleven met bosaardbeien Still Life with Wild Strawberries
Adriaen Coorte  Stilleven met bosaardbeien Still Life with Wild Strawberries
Adriaen Coorte  Stilleven met bosaardbeien Still Life with Wild Strawberries
Adriaen Coorte  Stilleven met bosaardbeien Still Life with Wild Strawberries
Adriaen Coorte  Stilleven met bosaardbeien Still Life with Wild Strawberries

Adriaen Coorte
Nature Morte de Fraises

Visible à Salle 11

Cette petite nature morte est un miracle de simplicité. Sur le plateau d’une table en pierre, quelques fraises sont disposées sur un fond sombre. Une tige pend au bord du plateau et une fleur blanche s’élève d’un fruit. Les akènes des fraises rouges sont indiqués par des points de peinture blanche.

On sait peu de choses sur Adriaen Coorte, si ce n’est qu’il vivait sans doute dans la ville de Middelbourg. Il est resté longtemps inconnu, jusqu’à ce qu’il soit redécouvert dans la seconde moitié du 20ème siècle et que ses tableaux deviennent très populaires.

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Nature Morte de Fraises

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We are completely ignorant about the life of Adriaen Coorte, and even the exact years of his birth and death remain unknown. From his dated paintings, we know that he worked as a painter from 1683-1707, probably in Middelburg. He specialised in still lifes, and an oeuvre of over one hundred paintings has been attributed to him. Certain motives constantly recur in his compositions; again and again, we see a stone ledge or tabletop, on which he might place one type of vegetable or fruit, or a variety of shells, always against the same dark background.

This small painting, which like many of Coorte’s still lifes is painted on paper pasted to a wooden board, in many ways typifies the masterful composition of his works. For instance, the clear, beautifully differentiated illumination, which highlights the strawberries and brings an almost magical quality to the piece, is a hallmark of Coorte’s paintings, as is the small size. Strikingly, only the upper surface of the tabletop is illuminated, and as a result the edge of the table stands out sharply. Coorte has fashioned a subtle composition from this simple collection of objects: the white flower forms a horizontal element among the heaped fruits, while the two strawberries hanging playfully over the edge of the table add a lively touch. To the right of these two strawberries, Coorte placed his signature and the year: 1705. More than any other painter of still lifes, he could take very ordinary subject matter and produce outstanding works.

(this is a reworked version of a text published in in: P. van der Ploeg, Q. Buvelot, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis: A princely collection, The Hague 2005, p. 113)

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Informations générales
Adriaen Coorte
Nature Morte de Fraises
painting
1106
Salle 11
Détails des matériaux et techniques
oil
paper on panel
16.5 x 14 cm
Inscriptions
lower right: A. C...... / 1705

Origine

Sale London, Sotheby’s, 16 March 1966, lot 89; purchased by Edward Speelman, London; gift of Mrs Edward Speelman, in memory of Mr Edward Speelman, 1995