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JAN JANSZ. DEN UYL I (KAMPEN 1595-1639 AMSTERDAM)

Lot 14
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Lot 14 | JAN JANSZ. DEN UYL I (KAMPEN 1595-1639 AMSTERDAM)
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JAN JANSZ. DEN UYL I (KAMPEN 1595-1639 AMSTERDAM)

Pewter jug and silver tazza on a table

signed with the artist's owl device (lower centre, on the table cloth) and dated '1633' (centre left, on the jug)

oil on panel

35 5⁄8 × 28 1⁄4 in. (90.4 x 71.7 cm.)





Provenance

Frederik Conrad Bugge (1754-1842); his sale, C.W. Haagen, Copenhagen, 21 August 1837, lot 127, as 'Anonymous' (145 Krone to the following).

Adam Wilhelm Moltke, Count Molke (1785-1864), Copenhagen, and by descent to his grandson,

Frederik Christian Moltke (1854-1936); his sale, Copenhagen, 1 June 1931, lot 50, as 'Gerrit Willemsz. Heda' (7,900 Krone).

Niels Olesen (1881-1956), Copenhagen, by 1941, and by inheritance to his second wife,

Asta Olesen, née Løffler (1895-1983); (†), Arne Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, 2 May 1984, lot 20.

with French & Co, New York, from whom acquired by the following,

Linda and Gerald Guterman (b. 1942), New York; their sale, Sotheby's, New York, 14 January 1988, lot 41 ($2,200,000).

Private collection, USA.

with Verner Amell Ltd, 1990, from whom acquired by the father of the present owners.



Literature

O.J. Rawert, Verzeichniss einer Sammlung von Oelgemählden dem Herrn Konferenzrath und geheimen Kabinetskassirer Frederik Conrad Bugge, Ritter vom Dannebroge und Dannebrogsmanne gehörend, Copenhagen, 1829, no. 159, as 'Anonymous'.

N.L. Høyen, Fortegnelse over den Moltkeske Malerisamling, Copenhagen, 2nd edition, 1856, no. 83, as 'Boelema'.

P. de Boer, 'Jan Jansz. van Uyl', Oud Holland, LVII, 1940, pp. 56 and 62.

N.R.A. Vroom, De schilders van het monochrome banketje, Amsterdam, 1945, p. 218, no. 278.

I. Bergström, Dutch Still-Life Painting in the Seventeenth Century, London, 1956, pp. 144-148, pl. IV, fig. 129.

P. Gammelbo, Dutch still-Life Painting from the 16th to the 18th Centuries in Danish Collections, Copenhagen, 1960, no. 62, illustrated.

N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message, as Intimated by the Painters of the 'Monochrome Banketje, Schiedam, 1980, II, p. 127, no. 657, illustrated.

D. Gimelson, 'The Guterman Collection: Portrait of the Businessman as a Collector', Art+Auction, September 1985, where described as the 'most beautifully perfect Dutch monochrome still-life in existence'.

A. van der Willigen and F. Meijer, A dictionary of Dutch and Flemish still-life painters working in oils, 1525-1725, Leiden, 2003, p. 199.

F.G. Meijer, Slow Food – Dutch and Flemish Meal Still-Lifes 1600-1640, exhibition catalogue, Zwolle, 2017, p. 47, fig. 34.



Exhibited

Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, Mit bedste kunstvaerk, October 1941, no. 85.

Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen, Hollandske og flamske stilleben fra 1600 - tallet i dansk eje, 30 January-28 February 1965, no. 84, illustrated on the front of the catalogue.

Amsterdam, The Rijksmuseum, Het Nederlandse Stilleven 1550-1720, 19 June-19 September 1999, no. 20.
Artist:Jan Jansz den Uyl (1595 - 1639)
Applied technique:Oil on panel
Genre:Still life
Place of origin:Western Europe, The Netherlands
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