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PIETER CLAESZ. (BERCHEM 1597 / 8-1660 HAARLEM)

Lot 34
05.02.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 34 | PIETER CLAESZ. (BERCHEM 1597 / 8-1660 HAARLEM)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
PIETER CLAESZ. (BERCHEM 1597 / 8-1660 HAARLEM)
A large roemer, overturned tazza, salt cellar, partially sliced lemon, oysters, pepper, knife and bread on a partially draped table
signed in monogram and dated ‘PC / 163[9]’ ('PC' linked, center left)
oil on panel
19 ¾ x 27 ½ in. (50.2 x 69.8 cm.)




Provenance

with Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, and from whom probably acquired by,
Francis Bunker Greene (1844-1911) and Rebecca Andrews Greene (1841-1905), Boston, and by descent circa 1911 to,
James Russell Chapman (b. 1851), Santa Barbara, CA, and by descent circa 1938 to his daughter,
Mary Chapman (Mrs. Hans Paul) Ahrnke (b. 1880), Lafayette, CA, and by whom gifted to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on 8 November 1956.



Literature

N.G. Ahern, et al., The Fine Arts Cookbook, Boston, 1970, p. 73, illustrated.
J. Walsh Jr. And C.P. Schneider, ‘Little-Known Dutch Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,’ Apollo, CX, December 1979, pp. 499-500, fig. 3.
A.R. Murphy, European Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue, Boston, 1985, p. 52, illustrated.
M. Brunner-Bulst, ‘Pieter Claesz.,’ in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, XIX, Munich and Leipzig, 1998, p. 354, as dated 1638.
A. van der Willigen and F.G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Painters Working in Oils, 1525-1725, Leiden, 2003, p. 62.
M. Brunner-Bulst, Pieter Claesz.: der Hauptmeister des Haarlemer Stillebens im 17. Jahrhundert, Lingen, 2004, p. 250, no. 82, illustrated.
H. Grootenboer, The Rhetoric of Perspective: Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-life Painting, Chicago, 2005, pp. 81-83, 86-90 and 93, pl. 10.



Exhibited

Miami, Miami Art Center, The Artist and the Sea, 21 March-18 April 1969, no. 11.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Masterpieces of Dutch Silver, 14 May-22 June 1980.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Still Life Paintings, 7 October-30 November 1980.
Chiba, Sogo Museum of Art; Nara, Sogo Museum of Art and Yokohama, Sogo Museum of Art, Still-life Painting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2 April-28 August 1994, no. 8 (cat. by K. Esielonis).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Grand Illusions: Four Centuries of Still Life, 14 September 1994-1 January 1995.
Artist:Pieter Claesz (1597 - 1661)
Applied technique:Oil on panel
Genre:Still life
Place of origin:Western Europe, The Netherlands
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