Petrus Schotanus Dronrijp 1601-1669/75

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 EUR

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Description

Petrus Schotanus
A vanitas still life with godwits, robins, a finch, a celestial globe, a book and an hourglass.
signed lower centre on a piece of paper: Petrus Schotanus/ fec-
oil on panel

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Stockholm, Bukowski, 20/21 September 1933, lot 112 (as J.P. van Schoten);
Anonymous sale, Stockholm, Bukowski, 26 May 1999, lot 475 (as attributed to Petrus Schotanus).

Literature

S.A. Sullivan, The Dutch Gamepiece, Totowa 1984, pp. xii, 75/6. reproduced fig. 153.

Catalogue Note

The present work is characteristic of Schotanus, who often used the celestial globe, the hourglass and dead game in his still lifes. These works can have a strong moralizing character, given the biblical texts on the painted documents, of which, according to Sullivan (see Literature: pp. 75/6), the top lines can be identified as a selection from Psalm 10.