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Adriaen Coorte
(ca. 1665 - after 1707) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes, who signed works between 1683 and 1707. He painted small and unpretentious still lifes in a style more typical of the first half of the century, and was "one of the last practitioners of this intimate category".
Very little is known of his life, but he is assumed to have been born and died in Middelburg. He became a pupil of Melchior d'Hondecoeter around 1680 in Amsterdam. From 1683 he seems to have returned to Middelburg, where he set up a workshop and signed his small, carefully balanced minimalist still lifes. He often painted on paper that was glued to a wooden panel. About 80 signed works by him have been catalogued, and nearly all of them follow the same pattern; small arrangements of fruits, vegetables, or shells on a stone slab, lit from above, with the dark background typical of still lifes earlier in the century. Instead of the Chinese or silver vessels favoured by his contemporaries, his tableware is very basic pottery. "Objects and light are studied intensely, and are painted with a wondrous tenderness".[1] Neither his birth nor death date is certain, and archival evidence only exists in Middelburg for his membership in the Guild of St. Luke there from 1695 onwards, when he was fined for selling a painting without being a member of the guild. His works appear frequently in contemporary Middelburg taxation inventories
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Painting ID:: 85205
Still-Life with Asparagus
Date 1697(1697)
Medium Oil on paper on panel
Dimensions Height: 25 cm (9.8 in). Width: 21 cm (8.3 in).
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Painting ID:: 92518
Still Life with Asparagus
1697(1697)
Medium oil on paper mounted on panel
Dimensions Height: 25 cm (9.8 in). Width: 20.5 cm (8.1 in).
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Painting ID:: 93062
Still Life with Asparagus.
1697(1697)
Medium oil on paper mounted on panel
Dimensions Height: 25 cm (9.8 in). Width: 20.5 cm (8.1 in).
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Painting ID:: 93063
Still life with wild strawberries.
1705(1705)
Medium oil on paper mounted on panel
Dimensions Height: 16.5 cm (6.5 in). Width: 14 cm (5.5 in).
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Painting ID:: 95946
Pelican and ducks in a mountain landscape or Oriental Birds
1683(1683)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 39 x 48 cm (15.4 x 18.9 in)
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Adriaen Coorte
(ca. 1665 - after 1707) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes, who signed works between 1683 and 1707. He painted small and unpretentious still lifes in a style more typical of the first half of the century, and was "one of the last practitioners of this intimate category".
Very little is known of his life, but he is assumed to have been born and died in Middelburg. He became a pupil of Melchior d'Hondecoeter around 1680 in Amsterdam. From 1683 he seems to have returned to Middelburg, where he set up a workshop and signed his small, carefully balanced minimalist still lifes. He often painted on paper that was glued to a wooden panel. About 80 signed works by him have been catalogued, and nearly all of them follow the same pattern; small arrangements of fruits, vegetables, or shells on a stone slab, lit from above, with the dark background typical of still lifes earlier in the century. Instead of the Chinese or silver vessels favoured by his contemporaries, his tableware is very basic pottery. "Objects and light are studied intensely, and are painted with a wondrous tenderness".[1] Neither his birth nor death date is certain, and archival evidence only exists in Middelburg for his membership in the Guild of St. Luke there from 1695 onwards, when he was fined for selling a painting without being a member of the guild. His works appear frequently in contemporary Middelburg taxation inventories
. Related Artists to Adriaen Coorte: | VOS, Cornelis de | Aleksander Gierymski | Charles Leickert | Pietro Faccini | Martin Drolling |
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