Still Life With Cardoon and a Francolin(Juan Sanchez Cotan)
Private collection; Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd., 1987-88; from whom acquired by the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection, 1988.
Inventory and last will and testament of Sanchez Cotan, 13th August 1603, listed under Bodegones as no III. Exhibition catalogue, Kimbwell Art Museum, Fort Worth and Toledo Museum of Art, 1985, pp 47-48. William B. Jordan ‘A Newly Discovered Still Life By Juan Sanchez Cotan’, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 132, pp 96-99. William B. Jordan and Peter Cherry, Spanish Still Life from Velasquez to Goya, Exhibition Catalogue, London, National Gallery, 1995, p 32, fig 18.
Museo del Prado, La Imitación de la Naturaleza; los Bodegones de Sánchez Cotán, November 1992-January 1993, p. 41, fig. 19, Cat. No. 3 pp. 66-69, 4 colour plate p. 67, figs. 28 and 29.