Still Life of Books and a Rembrandt Engraving

between 1631 and 1635

Sebastian Stosskopf German, 1597-1657

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Title Still Life of Books and a Rembrandt Engraving

Artwork Date between 1631 and 1635

Artist Sebastian Stosskopf

Life Dates 1597-1657

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. German

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: 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Dr. Wilhelm R. Valentiner

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. 52.199

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collection of William R. Valentiner (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1952-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

France in the Golden Age: Seventeeth-Century French Paintings in American Collections. Exh. cat., Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago. Paris, New York, Chicago, January-November 1982, p. 372, no. 12, (repr.) [not in the exhibition].

Held, J. Flemish and German Paintings of the 17th Century: The Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1982, p. 111, pl. XII.

Wright, C. The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century. Boston, 1985, p. 261.

Müller, W.J. and S. Berger. Sebastian Stoskopff, sein Leben, sein Werk, sein Zeit. Exh. cat., Kulturring. Idstein, 1987, no. 8, p. 18, (ill.) p. 72 [in exhibit?].

Hahn-Woernle, B. Sebastian Stoskopff. Stuttgart, 1996, no. 35, pp. 180-181.

Sébastien Stoskopff 1597-1657 / Un maitre de la nature morte. Exh. cat., Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame, Suermondt Ludwig Museum. Strasbourg, Aix-la-Chapelle, March-October 1997, no. 3, pp. 36, 90, 95, 99, 136, (color repr.) p. 137.

Rembrandts moeder: mythe en werkelijkheid. Exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Waanders Uitgevers. Leiden, Zwolle, p. 108, (color repr.) p. 109, (fig. 89) [not in exhibit; illustrates cat. entry for nos. 15/16].

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Sebastian Stosskopf, Still Life of Books and a Rembrandt Engraving, between 1631 and 1635, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. Wilhelm R. Valentiner, 52.199.