ID 791865
Lot 16 | PIETER CLAESZ (BERCHEM 1597/1598-1660/1661 HAARLEM)
Estimate value
£ 800 000 – 1 200 000
Strawberries, currants and bread on a pewter platter, a roemer filled with wine, strawberries, cherries and currants in a porcelain bowl, a cheese basket, bread, nuts, a tazza, a silver knife and a knife-case, on a partly draped table
oil on panel
19 5⁄8 x 28 3⁄4 in. (50 x 73 cm.)
Provenance
with Nijstad, The Hague, 1956 (3,500 florins).
with A. Brod Gallery, London, 1957⁄58.
Dr. Hans A. Wetzlar (d.1977), Amsterdam, and by descent.
Literature
C.A. Breuer, Weltkunst, XXVII, no. 24, Munich, 1957, p. 11, illustrated.
J. Berger Hochstrasser, Life and Still Life: A Cultural Inquiry into Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting, Ann Arbor, 1996, I, pp. 5 and 99; II, p. 592, fig. 49.
J.G.C.A. Briels, Vlaamse schilders in de Noordelijke Nederlanden in het begin van de Gouden Eeuw, 1585-1630, Haarlem, 1987, pp. 230 and 232, no. 295, illustrated.
E. Mai, ‘Grand abondance, petits déjeuners, banquets et natures mortes: Le boire and le manger en images’, in P. Beusen, et al., L’Art Gourmand. Stilleben für Auge, Kochkunst und Gourmets von Aertsen bis Van Gogh, Ghent, 1996, p. 48, fig. 8.
M. Brunner-Bulst, Pieter Claesz: der Hauptmeister des Haarlemer Stillebens im 17. Jahrhundert, Lingen, 2004, pp. 20-21, 146, 158-159 and 212, no. 13, illustrated.
Exhibited
Laren, Singer Museum, Kunstschatten: Twee Nederlandse collecties schilderijen uit de vijftiende tot en met de zeventiende eeuw en een collectie oud aardewerk, 1959, no. 38.
Dordrecht, Dordrecht Museum, Nederlandse stillevens uit de 17e eeuw, 21 July-2 September 1962, no. 36.
Laren, Singer Museum, Modernen van toen 1570-1630, 1963, no. 63.
Amsterdam, Kunsthandel P. de Boer; and Braunschweig, Herzog Anton-Ulrich Museum, A fruitful Past: Niederländische Stilleben von Brueghel bis van Gogh, 1983, no. 9.
Delft, Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof; Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum; and Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, De Rijkdom Verbeeld / A Prosperous Past, 1988, no. 27.
Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, Pieter Claesz (1596/97-1660): Meester van het stilleven in de Gouden Eeuw, 27 November 2004–3 April 2005; Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Pieter Claesz. Stilleben im Goldener Zeitalter, 22 April–21 August 2005; and Washington, National Gallery of Art, Pieter Claesz: Master of Haarlem Still Life, 18 September–31 December, 2005, no. 7.
Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, 2002-2019, on long-term loan.
Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum; Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, De Gouden Eeuw begint in Haarlem, 11 October 2008–7 June 2009.
The Hague, Mauritshuis, Slow Food – Dutch and Flemish Meal Still Lifes 1600-1640, 9 March–25 June 2017, no. 4.
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Artist: | Pieter Claesz (1597 - 1661) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
Genre: | Still life |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, The Netherlands |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Artist: | Pieter Claesz (1597 - 1661) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
Genre: | Still life |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, The Netherlands |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
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