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Abraham Mignon: Flowers and Fruit  wikidata:Q17275796 reasonator:Q17275796
Artist
Abraham Mignon  (1640–1679)  wikidata:Q330400
 
Description German-Dutch botanical illustrator and painter
Date of birth/death 21 June 1640 (baptised) 27 March 1679 (buried)
Location of birth/death Frankfurt Wetzlar or Utrecht
Work period from 1647 until 1679
date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1647-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1679-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Frankfurt (1647-1661), Utrecht (1661-1679), Amsterdam, Wetzlar
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artist QS:P170,Q330400
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Flowers and Fruit Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Lnl,"Bloemen en vruchten"
label QS:Len,"Flowers and Fruit"
label QS:Lfr,"Fleurs et fruits"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre floral painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Forest floor still life with fruit and a wicker basket with flowers. Pendant of File:Fruit, Basket, Insects, and Butterflies against a Background of a Stone Niche by Abraham Mignon Musée du Louvre INV. 1558.jpg.
Date Between 1669 and 1679
date QS:P571,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1669-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1679-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 75 cm (29.5 in); width: 63 cm (24.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,75U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,63U174728
institution QS:P195,Q2805178
Accession number
110
Place of creation Utrecht
Object history
  • by 1708
    date QS:P,+1708-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1708-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
    : Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau (1637-1708)
  • by 1726
    date QS:P,+1726-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1726-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
    : Princess Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau (1666-1726), ‘In der groszen gallerij’, Schloss Oranienstein, Diez, Germany, as ‘Zwey dito [= capital stücke von Mignon], etwasz kleiner, jedes 75 rthl.’
  • before 1771
    date QS:P,+1771-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1771-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
    : purchased by William V, Prince of Orange (1748-1806), The Hague, from Princess Maria Amalia of Nassau-Dietz, Schloss Oranienstein, Diez, Germany (?)
  • 1775: transferred to William V, Prince of Orange (1748-1806), The Hague, from Schloss Oranienstein, Diez, Germany
  • Unknown date
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    : Stadhouderlijk Kabinet van Schilderijen, Buitenhof, The Hague, as ‘In A° 1775 van Oranjestein gekomen. / Een Fruit en Bloemstuk, zijnde een weërga, op doek in een dito Lijst .... [height:] 2 [voet] 4 ½ [duim] [width:] 2 [voet] - [duim] / door Denzelven [= Abraham Mignon].’
  • Unknown date
    Unknown date
    : transferred to Paris (?)
  • Unknown date
    Unknown date
    : transferred to the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague
  • Unknown date
    Unknown date
    : lent to the Dienst voor 's Rijks Verspreide Kunstvoorwerpen, today Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, Inventory number B101
Inscriptions

Signature bottom left:

Ab, Mignon: fec.
References

A. Bredius (1891) Catalogue sommaire des tableaux et sculptures du Musée Royal de tableaux (Mauritshuis) à La Haye, La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff, p. 36, cat. no.  218, as Fleurs et fruits.

Mauritshuis online catalogue, as Flowers and Fruit.

RKDimages, Art-work number 14387, as Forest floor still life with fruit and a wicker basket with flowers, 1669-1679
Source/Photographer www.mauritshuis.nl : Home : Info : Pic

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