ID 1443131
Lot 132 | DUTCH SCHOOL, FIRST HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 25 000
A rabbit and an earthenware vessel, hanging on a door
oil on panel, octagonal
10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.4 cm.)
Provenance
Robert Napier (1791-1876), West Shandon; his sale (†), Christie's, London, 14 April 1877 (=4th day), lot 585, as 'G. Dow' (5 gns. to Layard).
Georges Seisieffe (according to a label on the reverse).
Daniël George van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, by 1917, and by descent.
Literature
J.C. Robinson, Catalogue of the Works of Art forming the collection of Robert Napier of West Shandon, Dumbartonshire, London, 1865, p. 38, no. 404, as 'Paul Potter'.
D. Hannema, Catalogue of the D.G. van Beuningen Collection, Rotterdam, 1949, p. 75, no. 67, pl. 71, as 'Attributed to H.M. Sorgh'.
J. Giltaij, D.G. 50 jaar Van Beuningen 1958-2008, online, 2012, accessed 13 May 2025, p. 34.
Exhibited
Manchester, City Art Gallery, Art Treasures of Great Britain, 5 May-17 October 1857, no. 908, as 'Gerard Dow' (lent by R. Napier).
The Hague, Gemeente Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Nederlandsche Stilleven uit vijf Eeuwen, 27 February-31 March 1926, no. 34, as 'Hollandsch schilder, c. 1640'.
Amsterdam, Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker, Het Stilleven, 18 February-26 March 1933, no. 91, as 'Attributed to Carel Fabritius'.
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, 115 Still-Iifes 1480-1933, 1 April-23 April 1933, no. 28, as 'Attributed to Carel Fabritius'.
Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, La Nature Morte de l'antiquité à nos jours, 1952, no. 44, as 'Peintre Hollandais Milieu du XVIIe siècle'.
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