Still Life with Roemer, 1644

  • Pieter Claesz, Dutch, ca. 1597-1660

Oil on oak panel

  • Unframed: 17 1/4 × 21 inches (43.8 × 53.3 cm)
  • 24 1/2 × 28 × 1 1/2 inches (62.2 × 71.1 × 3.8 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

40.129

Signed and dated, lower left on handle of knife: P C [artist's monogram]1644

Henry Fuseli, the painter [1741-1825]. private collection (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

(Lilienfeld Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, USA)

1940-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Richardson, E.P. "Two Still Life Paintings from Haarlem." Bulletin of the DIA 20, no. 2 (November 1940): pp. 15-17 (ill.). Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 26, no. 475. Keyes, George S. et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 56–57, no. 19 (ill.). Keyes, G.S. "A Brief History of the European Paintings Collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts with a Focus on the Dutch School." in the catalogue for The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF). Maastricht, 2005, pp. 10-15.

Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Roemer, 1644, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 40.129.