W. MERTENS (ACTIVE ANTWERP, CIRCA 1650-75)

Lot 142
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Lot 142 | W. MERTENS (ACTIVE ANTWERP, CIRCA 1650-75)
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$ 80 000 – 120 000
W. MERTENS (ACTIVE ANTWERP, CIRCA 1650-75)

Silver platters with grapes, pears, plums, melons and bread rolls, a silver tazza and ewer, a basket with fruits, a gilt cup and cover, a lobster, and a roemer on a partially draped table with a curtain in the background

signed 'W. Mertens' (lower left, on the edge of the table)

oil on canvas

48 ¼ x 72 ¼ in. (122.5 x 183.5 cm.)





Provenance

(Probably) [Provenant des maisons Religieus supprimées aux Pays-Bas, dont la vente se fera au Couvent des ci-devant Riches Claires à Brussels, en argent de Change.]; Brussels, 12 September 1785, lot 499.

Prince P. Galitzin, by 1875.

Ferdinand Bischoffsheim (1837-1909), Belgium.

with Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, by 1895.

Sir Joseph Robinson (1840-1929), 1st Baronet, Cape Town, as Jan Davidsz. de Heem, and by descent to,

Princess Ida Labia (1880-1961), Cape Town, as Jan Davidsz. de Heem.

with Leger Galleries, London, by April 1971.

John Heinz III (1938-1991), Pittsburgh.

Peter H. Tillou (1935-2021), Litchfield, CT; his deceased sale, Brunk Auctions, Ashville, NC, 29 September 2022, lot 126, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

I. Bergström, Still Lifes of the Golden Age: Northern European Paintings from the Heinz Family Collection, A. K. Wheelock, ed., exhibition catalogue, Washington D.C. and Boston, 1989, pp. 73, 199, no. 26, illustrated, as Wouter Mertens.

A. van der Willingen and F. G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Painters Working in Oils, 1525-1725, Leiden, 2003, p. 142.



Exhibited

Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Sammlung Joseph Robinson, 1840-1929, 1923, no. 23, as Jan Davidsz. de Heem.

London, The Royal Academy, The Robinson Collection: Paintings from the collection of the Late Sir J.B. Robinson, Bt., lent by the Princess Labia, 2 July-14 September 1958, no. 64, as Jan de Heem.

Cape Town, National Gallery of South Africa, The Sir Joseph Robinson Collection: Lent by the Princess Labia, 1959, no. 35, as Jan de Heem.

Washington D.C. National Gallery of Art and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Still Lifes of the Golden Age: Northern European Paintings from the Heinz Family Collection, 14 May-31 December 1989, no. 26, as Wouter Mertens.
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