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Source Description
This still life of dead birds on a rocky shelf is given an elegiac quality by the addition of a butterfly, suggesting (through the brevity of its own life), the brevity and mutability of existence and also by the exquisite softness of the still forms conveyed by brushwork. This work can be attributed to Carstian Luyckx, a flemsih still life painter, whose choice of subject matter ranged widely but included very similar works that are signed, as this piece is not.
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Document identity
localId
16995
label
Still Life of Birds and a Butterfly
core
obj
dtoType
painting
citationUrl
pageCount
2
Source metadata
id
16995
sourceUrl
contentType
painting
stage
normalized
title
Still Life of Birds and a Butterfly
description
This still life of dead birds on a rocky shelf is given an elegiac quality by the addition of a butterfly, suggesting (through the brevity of its own life), the brevity and mutability of existence and also by the exquisite softness of the still forms conveyed by brushwork. This work can be attributed to Carstian Luyckx, a flemsih still life painter, whose choice of subject matter ranged widely but included very similar works that are signed, as this piece is not.
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1650 (Baroque)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
paintings
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
36.5
height
49.5
dimensionsRaw
H: 14 3/8 x W: 19 1/2 in. (36.5 x 49.5 cm)
Source extras
med
oil on canvas
creator_ids
36431
6505
collection_ids
BAR
exhibition_ids
none
Page inventory
seq
1
type
photo
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d8e09fb482a9c366
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no
hasDescription
no
seq
2
type
photo
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466b25c3344d871c
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no
hasDescription
no