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Seventeenth-Century Interior
Charles Gifford Dyer (American, 1846–1912)
1877
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 94 × 71.1 cm (37 × 28 in.)
- Culture
- Munich
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of the Estate of Henry W. King
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Chicagoan Charles Gifford Dyer studied painting in Paris and Munich. The objects depicted here, such as the Chinese blue-and-white vase and Oushak Turkish rug, were likely collected during his extensive travels and represent the tastes of a worldly, wealthy man. The composition recalls 17th-century Dutch still lifes in its focus on surfaces, textures, and illusionism. Similarly, it evokes the fleetingness of life by juxtaposing items that quickly decay, such as fruit and flowers, with the enduring arts of literature and music.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
