Master Paintings Part I
Master Paintings Part I
Property of a New York Private Collector
A Still Life with Cherries and Strawberries in Wanli Dishes, an Orange on a Pewter Plate with a Knife, Gooseberries, Red, White and Black Currants, Mulberries, a Berkemeier and a Stoneware Jug on a Table Covered with a White Tablecloth
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January 26, 05:50 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a New York Private Collector
Pieter Claesz.
Berchem 1597/8 - 1660/1 Haarlem
A Still Life with Cherries and Strawberries in Wanli Dishes, an Orange on a Pewter Plate with a Knife, Gooseberries, Red, White and Black Currants, Mulberries, a Berkemeier and a Stoneware Jug on a Table Covered with a White Tablecloth
signed in monogram and dated lower left: PC Ao 1621
oil on panel
panel: 17⅞ by 25 in.; 45.5 by 63.5 cm.
framed: 27¼ by 33¾ in.; 69.2 by 85.7 cm.
N.R.A. Vroom, De schilders van het monochrome banketje, Amsterdam 1945, cat. no. 17;
I. Bergström, Studier i Holländisdkt Stillebenmaler under 1600-Talet, Göteborg 1947, p. 120f, reproduced fig. 100;
I. Bergström, Dutch Still Life Painting in the Seventeenth Century, London 1956, p. 114, reproduced fig. 100;
M. Millner Kahr, Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century, New York 1978, p. 196;
H. Bauer, Holländische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1979, pp. 84, 87, reproduced p. 85;
N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message as Intimated by the Painters of the 'Monochrome Banketje,' Schiedam 1980, vol. II, p. 16, cat. no. 39, reproduced;
B. Haak, Hollandse Schilders in de Gouden Eeuw, Amsterdam 1984/Das Goldene Zeitalter der Höllandische Malerei, Cologne 1984/The Golden Age: Dutch Painters of the 17th Century, New York 1984, p. 247, reproduced fig. 517;
P. Lorenzelli, Orbis pictus:Natura Morta in Germania, Olanda, Fiandre, XVI-XVIII Secolo, exhibition catalogue, Bergamo 1986, p. 135, reproduced fig. 61;
S. Segal, A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands 1600-1700, exhibition catalogue, pp. 121 and 215, note 5;
E. Gemar-Koeltzsch, Holländische Stillebenmaler im 17. Jahrhunderts, Lingen 1995, vol. II, p. 227, no. 76/1, reproduced;
A.W. Lowenthal, "Pieter Claesz.," The Dictionary of Art, London and New York 1996, vol. VII, p. 369;
M. Brunner-Bulst, Pieter Claesz. Der Hauptmeister des Haarlemer Stillebens im 17. Jahrhundert, Lingen 2004, pp. 8, 137-138, 206, cat. no. 1, reproduced in color p. 9;
P. Biesboer, ed., Pieter Claesz. Master of Haarlem Still Life, exhibition catalogue, Zwolle 2004, pp. 16, 37-38, 114, cat. no. 1, reproduced in color (detail) pp. 8 - 9, 13;
A. Blankert, "Pieter Claesz. als uitvinder van de asymmetrische diagonaal," in "Gij zult niet feestbundelen," 34 bijdragen voor Peter Hecht, Amsterdam 2016, pp. 17-20.