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Oct 29, 2013

Still Life with Sweets

1622

Juan van der Hamen y Léon

(Spanish, 1596–1631)

Spain, 17th century

Oil on canvas

Framed: 83 x 122 x 7.5 cm (32 11/16 x 48 1/16 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 58 x 97 cm (22 13/16 x 38 3/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1980.6

Location

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Description

Placed on a simple stone ledge, this bold arrangement includes a wooden box, a dark glass bottle, some walnuts, an elaborate Venetian glass, and several sweets called turrones. These delicacies are a mixture of pine nuts, honey, almonds, and hazelnuts. The picture may not represent an actual meal or snack. Rather, the artist played with contrasts and harmonies of shapes, textures, and colors. During his short career van der Hamen, whose father was from the Netherlands, worked at the Spanish royal court and created biblical pictures, history paintings, allegories, and landscapes. He is best known for his portraits and still lifes.

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Inscription

Signed lower left: "Ju Vander Hamen/ de Leon fa[t], 1622"

Provenance

Rodriguez Miramón coll., Mexico (c. 1920); (New York sale 1979); (Newhouse Galleries, New York)

Citations

Canepa, Teresa. Silk,Porcelain and Lacquer: China and Japan and Their Trade with Western Europe and the New World, 1500-1644. [London]: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2016. 228

Exhibition history

Ft. Worth, TX, The Kimbell Art Museum, May 11-August 3, 1985: "The Golden Age of Spanish Still Life: 1600-1650," cat. no. 14, pp. 128-9, repr. color p. 130. Toledo, OH, The Toledo Museum of Art, September 7- November 2, 1985.

CMA, October 21, 1986-march 8, 1987: The Magic of Still Life, Gallery A. no catalogue.

Palacio Real de Madrid (10/20/2005 - 1/22/2006) and Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (3/2005 - 5/2005): "Juan van der Hamen y Léon", ex.cat.no. 5, p. 79.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (11/17/2006 - 3/28/2007): "Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History"

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (4/13/2008 - 7/27/2008) and Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC (8/22/2008 - 11/9/2008): "El Greco to Velázquez: Art at the Court of Philip III", ex. cat. no. 56, p. 279.

Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

The Magic of Still Life. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 4, 1986-February 1, 1987).

Juan van der Hamen y León and the Court of Madrid. Palacio Real de Madrid, Madrid, Spain (October 1, 2005-January 1, 2006); Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (March 16-May 28, 2006).

Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (November 17, 2006-March 28, 2007).

El Greco to Velázquez: Art at the Court of Philip III. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (organizer) (April 13-July 27, 2008); Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (August 22-November 9, 2008).

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