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Still Life with a Turkey Pie

painting by Pieter Claesz., Rijksmuseum

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
Arts and lettersInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ17340485 ↗
Source-derived summary

Still Life with a Turkey Pie is a 1627 still life painting by the Dutch painter Pieter Claesz, now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It was in the collection of Baroness Cecilia-Maria van Pallandt at Keukenhof Castle from 1881. Her descendants sold it to the Hague-based art dealer S.Neistad in 1974 for 300,000 guilders. He sold it onto its present owners later the same year for 832,000 guilders.

Editorial summary

“Still Life with a Turkey Pie” enters the record as painting by Pieter Claesz., Rijksmuseum. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Still, Life and Turkey can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1627, 1881, 1974—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1627-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Still, Life and Turkey.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Still Life with a Turkey Pie” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Still, Life and Turkey provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17340485. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1627, 1881 and 1974.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Still Life with a Turkey Pie”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Still Life with a Turkey Pie primary sources, Still Life with a Turkey Pie archive and Still research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Still Life with a Turkey Pie”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Still Life with a Turkey Pie” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.