Still Life with Strawberries, between 1600 and 1625

  • Flemish

Oil on oak panel

  • Unframed: 11 1/4 × 16 1/2 inches (28.6 × 41.9 cm)
  • 16 1/8 × 21 1/2 × 2 1/4 inches (41 × 54.6 × 5.7 cm)

Gift of Anna Scripps Whitcomb

35.106

April 28, 1930, auctioned, C. Baumann of Westphalia [and others, C.J. Reijerse] (The Hague, Netherlands), lot 4

(Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

1935, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) with gift of funds from Anna Scripps Whitcomb

Boer, P. de. Bloemstukken van oude meesters. The Hague, 1935, no. 14. Valentiner, W.R. "Still Life Paintings," Bulletin of the DIA 15, no. 4 (1936): pp. 46-50, esp. pp. 48-49, (repr.) [as by Osias Beert]. Scheyer, E. Baroque Painting. Detroit, 1937, pp. 58, 60, (fig. 29) [as by Osias Beert]. Richardson, E.P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, pp. 10-11, no. 426 [as by Osias Beert]. Hairs, M. -L. "Osais Beert, l'ancien, peintre de fleurs," Revue Belge d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art, vol. 20, no. 3 (1951): p. 251 [doubtful attribution]. Richardson, E.P. Catalogue of the Whitcomb Gifts to the DIA. 1954, pp. 50-51 [as by Beert]. Fruits and Flowers in Painting. Exh. cat., Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Santa Barbara, 1958, p. 15, cat. 7 [as Osias Beet]. Five Hundred Years of Still-Life. Exh. cat., Mortimer Brandt Gallery. New York, 1961. Things: Still Life Painting from the 17th to the 20th Century. Exh. cat., Willistead Art Gallery, London Public Library and Art Museum. Windsor, Ontario, 1969-1970, cat. 3. Held, J.S. Flemish and German Paintings of the 17th Century: The Collections of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1982, pp. 54-55, (repr.) [as Flemish or German artist].

Flemish, Still Life with Strawberries, between 1600 and 1625, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Anna Scripps Whitcomb, 35.106.