His works appear frequently in contemporary Middelburg taxation inventories Coorte was apparently not well known to his contemporaries outside the small city of Middelburg and , like Vermeer a century before , he was almost entirely forgotten until the 1950s , when the Dutch art historian Laurens J. Bol revived his reputation , beginning with an article in 1952 , and finally publishing the first monograph and catalogue raisonné on Coorte in 1977 ( Adriaen Coorte , Amsterdam ) .
In the 1950s , the Dutch art historian Laurens J. Bol revived his reputation , beginning with an article in 1952 , and finally publishing the first monograph and catalogue raissone on Coorte in 1977 ( Adriaen Coorte , Amsterdam ) .