Still Life of Books and a Rembrandt Engraving, between 1631 and 1635

  • Sebastian Stosskopf, German, 1597-1657

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm)

Gift of Dr. Wilhelm R. Valentiner

52.199

collection of William R. Valentiner (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1952-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

France in the Golden Age: Seventeeth-Century French Paintings in American Collections. Exh. cat., Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago. Paris, New York, Chicago, January-November 1982, p. 372, no. 12, (repr.) [not in the exhibition]. Held, J. Flemish and German Paintings of the 17th Century: The Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1982, p. 111, pl. XII. Wright, C. The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century. Boston, 1985, p. 261. Müller, W.J. and S. Berger. Sebastian Stoskopff, sein Leben, sein Werk, sein Zeit. Exh. cat., Kulturring. Idstein, 1987, no. 8, p. 18, (ill.) p. 72 [in exhibit?]. Hahn-Woernle, B. Sebastian Stoskopff. Stuttgart, 1996, no. 35, pp. 180-181. Sébastien Stoskopff 1597-1657 / Un maitre de la nature morte. Exh. cat., Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame, Suermondt Ludwig Museum. Strasbourg, Aix-la-Chapelle, March-October 1997, no. 3, pp. 36, 90, 95, 99, 136, (color repr.) p. 137. Rembrandts moeder: mythe en werkelijkheid. Exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Waanders Uitgevers. Leiden, Zwolle, p. 108, (color repr.) p. 109, (fig. 89) [not in exhibit; illustrates cat. entry for nos. 15/16].

Sebastian Stosskopf, Still Life of Books and a Rembrandt Engraving, between 1631 and 1635, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. Wilhelm R. Valentiner, 52.199.