Edwaert Collier

Oscar and Maria Salzer, Los Angeles;
By whom given to the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science,1983 (Acc. FMM 82.20).

Los Angeles, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California; Seattle, WA, Seattle Art Museum; Honolulu, HI, Honolulu Academy of Art; Santa Barbara, CA, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Reality and Deception, 16 October 1974 – 20 April 1975, cat. no. 16, reproduced;
Dartmouth, NH, Hood Museum of Art; Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art; Houston, TX, Museum of Fine Arts; Atlanta, GA, High Museum of Art, Age of the Marvelous, 21 September 1991 - 3 January 1993, cat. no. 195, reproduced p. 428;
Nagoya, Nagoya City Art Museum; Bunkamura, The Bunkamura Museum of Art; Hyogo, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Visual Deception, 11 April 2009 - 3 November 2009, cat. no. 19, reproduced p. 56.

Portraits of Objects, Oscar and Maria Salzer Collection of Still Life and Trompe-L'Oeil Paintings, Fresno 1984, cat. no. 9, reproduced.

Canvas appears to be unlined (or very thinly relined). there is very good retention of the paint surface with excellent detail throughout. ultraviolet light reveals retouching along a small scratch in the bottom part of the engraving on part of the word "Nostri" and continuing into the white border. otherwise, there are just a few tiny retouches in border area of engraving. painting can be hung in its present state. Set into a plain brown wood frame.
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A recurring motif in Collier's work, the artist often incorporated the print of Erasmus of Rotterdam into his trompe l'oeil still lifes, sometimes alone, and sometimes incorporated into arrangements of various objects.