JEAN-BAPTISTE VAN MOERKERCKE (COURTRAI ?-1689 ROME)
A still life with musical instruments
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JEAN-BAPTISTE VAN MOERKERCKE (COURTRAI ?-1689 ROME)
A still life with musical instruments
signed 'JB. Moerkercke pinxit' ('JB' linked, lower center) 油彩 画布
32 x 41 1/8 in. (81.2 x 104.5 cm.)
来源
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 18 June 1992, lot 44, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
J. de Maere and M. Wabbes, Illustrated Dictionary of 17th Century Flemish Painters, III, J.A. Martin, ed., Brussels, 1994, p. 839, illustrated. A. van der Willigen and F.G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-Life Painters working in Oils, 1525-1725, Leiden, 2003, p. 144.
The musical score has been tentatively identified as Italian composer Francesco Colombini's Nectar caelicum sive cantiones sacrae, II, III, IV vocibus cum basso continuo, which was published in Antwerp in 1639.
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