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Claes Bergoijs
A 'pronk' still life with a lobster, bread, lemons, grapes and apricots alongside a gilt cup, tazza and an imported Chinese dish and jar
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December 8, 02:42 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Claes Bergoijs
before 1650 - 1668 Amsterdam
A 'pronk' still life with a lobster, bread, lemons, grapes and apricots alongside a gilt cup, tazza and an imported Chinese dish and jar
signed lower left: C. Bergoijs 1665
oil on canvas
unframed: 84.2 x 121.4 cm.; 33⅛ x 47¾ in.
framed: 110.8 x 147.5 cm.; 43⅝ x 58 in.
F.G. Meijer and A. van der Willigen, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-Life painters working in oils 1525–1725, Leiden 2003, p. 36.
Described by Meijer and Van der Willigen as 'an extremely prolific still life', this painting is the largest recorded painting by the Amsterdam painter Claes Bergoijs. The work's rarity is compounded by its landscape format, which was approached very few times by the artist.