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Painting on canvas
Signed lower right
100 x 120 cm
Provenance
Former Charlotte Frank collection, London, documented 1954
(label on back)
London, Phillips, December 1998, lot 59
Milan, Finarte, October 2003, lot. 45
London, Sotheby's, July 2022, lot 155
Exhibition1954, October, Sheffield (UK), Graves Art Gallery, "The Eye Deceived:
An Exhibition of Trompe L'oeil - Paintings, Drawings and Objects", no. 34 (label on back)
Bibliography
"Art in Cap and Bells: trompe l'œil masterpieces designed to cheat the eye by their astonishing effect of reality", in The Illustrated London News,
Christmas Number 1955, p. 25
P. Gammelbo, "Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts og Franciskus Gijsbrechts" in Kunstmuseets Årsskrift, 39-42, 1952-55, p. 125-156, quoted p. 153, n° 58
This painting represents a detail from a cabinet of curiosities, a niche filled with disparate objects intended to reflect the tastes of the owner and the artist.
As early as the Renaissance, princes had studioli installed in their homes. A studioli was a wood-panelled workroom housing a host of rare objects related to the natural sciences or archaeology.
