The Artist in His Studio

ca. between 1665 and 1670

Attributed to Cornelis Bisschop Dutch, 1630-1674

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Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title The Artist in His Studio

Artwork Date ca. between 1665 and 1670

Artist Attributed to Cornelis Bisschop

Life Dates 1630-1674

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Dutch

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 35 3/4 × 30 1/4 inches (90.8 × 76.8 cm) Framed: 46 × 40 1/8 × 4 3/4 inches (116.8 × 101.9 × 12.1 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Anna Scripps Whitcomb

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 38.29

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Signed Signed, at left, on frame of globe: FvM

Provenance

Charles Astor Bristed [1820-1874] (Lenox, Massachusetts, USA);
1936-1938, (Galerie F. Kleinberger, Paris, France);
Purchased by Anna Scripps Whitcomb [1866-1953] as a gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts;
May 1938, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Art News 36, July 16,1938, p. 19.

Art News 37, January 28, 1939, p. 16.

Richardson, Edgar Preston. “A Youthful Self Portrait of Frans van Mieris.” Bulletin of the DIA 18, no. 4 (1939): pp. 2-4, (cover ill.).

“The Arts Commission Annual Report for the Year 1938: Accessions.” Bulletin of the DIA 18, no. 5 (February 1939): pp. 9-13, p. 9.

Pope-Hennessy, John. “Recent Research.” The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 74, no. 433 (April 1939): pp. 196-198, p. 197.

Loan Exhibition of Self-Portraits, Baroque to Impressionism. Exh. cat., Schaeffer Galleries. New York, 1940, cat. 7.

Goldwater, Robert. “Artists painted by Themselves. Self-portraits from Baroque to Impressionism.” Art News 38 (1940): p. 9.

Richardson, Edgar Preston, ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, pp. 90, 177, no. 646 (ill.). [as Frans van Mieris.]

Great Portraits by Famous Painters. Exh. cat., Minneapolis Intsitute of Arts. Minneapolis, 1952, cat. 13.

Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of the Whitcomb Gifts. Detroit, 1954, p. 25.

Grigaut, P.L. “Masterpieces for an automobile Culture.” Art News 53, June 1954, p. 38.

Hall, H. van. Portretten van Nederlandse beeldende Kunstenaars. Amsterdam, 1963, p. 211, no. 14. [as Job Berckheyde, Self-portrait.]

Wittkower, Rudolf. Art & Architecture in Italy 1600-1750. Pelican History of Art, 3rd ed. Baltimore, 1973, p. 537, note 42.

Kaufman, Robert C. "The Photo-Archive of Color Palettes." The Yale University Library Gazette 49, no. 1 (July 1974): pp. 251-272, no. 50 (ill.). [as in the Uffizi collection, confused with no.49]

Naumann, Otto. Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635-1681), 2 vols., Doornspijk, 1981, vol 2, p. 146, no. C 31 (fig. 17). [as by an unknown 17th century Dutch painter.]

Raupp, Hans-Joachim. Untersuchungen zu Künstlerbildnis und Künstlerdarstellung in den Niederlanden im 17. Jahrhundert, Hildesheim-Zurich-New York, 1984, pp. 275-276, fig. 168 (ill.). [as Frans van Mieris I?, early work from ca. 1653-1655; as attributed to Job Berckheyde.]

Russell, Margarita. "The Artist in his Studio A Self-portrait by Michiel van Musscher." Apollo 127, no. 314 (January 1988): pp. 9-15 (fig. 5).

Sluijter, Eric Jan. "Een Zelfportret en De Schilder en zijn Atelier." Leids Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. 8. 1989, pp. 287-307, fig. 6 (ill.). [as possibly Jan van Mieris.]

Keyes, George S. et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 28–29, no. 8 (ill.).

de Witt, David. “An Artist Instructing a Pupil in his Studio by Cornelis Bisshop instead of Jan Lievens,” De Kroniek Museum het Rembrandthuis (December 2021): https://www.rembrandthuis.nl/en/collection-and-research/de-kroniek/. Accessed on: 9/29/2021.

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attributed to Cornelis Bisschop, The Artist in His Studio, ca. between 1665 and 1670, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Anna Scripps Whitcomb, 38.29.