Two more flower paintings by Gillis van Coninxloo III
2001; Brill; Volume: 114; Issue: 2-4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1163/187501701x00433
ISSN1875-0176
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Influence and Diplomacy
ResumoA pair of flower paintings, which went through Christie's in London in 1996 with an attribution to Nicolaes Gillis,1 has recently been restored and cleaned (figs. 1 and 2). During the cleaning process a signature, E, or F,VC.Loo (the E/F, Vand C combined) was revealed on one of them (fig. 3). Only one other painting with this signature is currently known. It is the property of the Instituut Collectie Nederland2 in Rij s wijk/ Amsterdam, and has been on loan to the Noordbrabants Museum in 's-Hertogenbosch since 1987 (fig. 4). 3 There the signature differs slightly; it reads E/FV. cLOO x (E/FVand cL both combined). The ICN's painting is regularly assigned in the literature to Gillis van Coninxloo, working on the assumption that the 'E/F' is an 'E', and stands for Egidius. It is known that the landscape painter Gillis van Coninxloo signed an invoice 'iEgidius van Coninxloo',4 and prints after his work are signed variously 'Egidius Coninxlogensis', 'Egidius Coninxloey' and 'Egidius Coninxloo',5 so the latinisation of the Christian name need not strike us as problematic. And while the monogram in the signature might conceivably be read differently (as Egbert, Frans or Elisabet van Coninxloo, or as Evert Claesz Loo perhaps), Egidius van Coninxloo is the only artist's name known to us that fits. In what follows, therefore, I shall assume that this reading is correct.
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