ISAAC SOREAU (HANAU 1604-1645 FRANKFURT AM MAIN)

Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
Auction dateClassic
23.05.2024 10:00UTC -04:00
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USA, New York
ID 1196485
Lot 15 | ISAAC SOREAU (HANAU 1604-1645 FRANKFURT AM MAIN)
ISAAC SOREAU (HANAU 1604-1645 FRANKFURT AM MAIN)

A porcelain plate with red and green grapes, a pewter plate with a knife, nuts, a pear and a glass of wine on a table top

signed in monogram 'I·S·F·' (center right, next to the grapes)

oil on copper

14 5⁄8 x 20 3⁄8 in. (37.2 x 51.7 cm.)





Provenance

with Duits, London, by April 1939, until sold to the following,

with Kunsthandel Pieter de Boer, Amsterdam, by 1939, as Sebastian Stoskopff (inv. no. 2739).

Jacob 'Jaap' Polack, Amersfoort/Amsterdam, acquired from the above, June 1939.

Confiscated by the 'Dienststelle Mühlmann,' 1941, following the occupation of The Netherlands.

Acquired from the above by Hans Posse on behalf of Adolf Hitler for the Fürer-Museum at Linz (Linz no. 2421), as Sebastian Stoskopff.

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from Alt Aussee, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting point, 18 October 1945 (MCCP no. 10555).

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 6 December 1973, lot 138, as Osias Beert, where acquired by the following,

with Newhouse Galleries, New York, by 1974, as Jan Soreau.

with Richard Green, London, by 1975, as Jan Soreau.

with Galerie J. Kraus, Paris, by 1976.

Private collection, Germany, by 1984.

Anonymous sale; Fine Art Metz Auktionhaus, Heidelberg, 5-10 December 2009, lot 299, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

Advertisement, Apollo, C, 1974, p. 21, illustrated, as Jan Soreau.

Advertisement, Connaissance des Arts, May, 1977, illustrated.

G. Schurr, 'In the Paris Galleries', The Connoisseur, CXCIV, 1977, p. 70, illustrated.

C. Grimm, Glück und Glas. Zur Kulturgeschichte des Spessart-glases, Munich, 1984, p. 344 and 346, no. 6.

G. Bott, Die Stillebenmaler Soreau, Binoit, Codino und Marrell in Hanau und Frankfurt 1600-1650, Hanau, 2001, pp. 107, 112 and 188, fig. 95, no. WV.IS.49.



Exhibited

The Hague, Koninklijke Kunstzaal Kleykamp, Tentoonstelling van oude schilderijen der collectie N.V. Kunsthandel P. de Boer, 8 June-3 July 1939, no. 90, as S. Stoskopff.

London, Richard Green, Annual Exhibition of Old Master Paintings, 1975, no. 12, as Jan Soreau.

Paris, Galerie J. Kraus, Premier Exhibition, September 1976, no. 9.

Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Georg Flegel 1566-1638: Stilleben, 18 December 1993-14 February 1994, no. 163 (entry by K. Wettengl).
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