About the Artwork
Still Life: A Letter Rack
1692
Edwart Collyer
ca.1640 - after 1708
Dutch
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 19 3/4 × 24 inches (50.2 × 61 cm) Framed: 26 1/2 × 31 × 1 7/16 inches (67.3 × 78.7 × 3.7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
2002.159
Public Domain
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Canvas
Combs (grooming tools)
Eastpointe memorial library (eastpointe)
Gravel park (madison heights)
Grosse ile historical museum (grosse ile)
Letter (correspondence)
Letter opener
Lyon oaks golf course & event center (oakland county parks)
Newspaper
Oil paint
Painting (visual work)
Scissors
Still life
Trompe-l'oeil
Woodward avenue & merrill plaisance street (palmer park)
Markings
Signed, on paper, in letter rack: Mr. Edwart Colyer Painter At Leyden
Provenance
1958, (Rapps Konsthandel, Stockholm, Sweden);until 2000, private collection (Sweden);
2001-2002, (Bob B. Haboldt & Company, Paris, France and New York, New York, USA);
2002-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 77, no. 3/4: Annual Report (2003): p. 22
Keyes, George S. et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 58–59, no. 20 (ill.).
Haboldt, B., ed. Singular Vision: Haboldt & Co.'s Old Master paintings and drawings since 1983. Amsterdam, New York, Paris, 2012, p. 178 (ill.).
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Edwart Collyer, Still Life: A Letter Rack, 1692, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 2002.159.
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