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Cornelis Jacobsz. Delff Gouda 1570/71 - 1643 Delft
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 EUR
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Description
- Cornelis Jacobsz. Delff
- a kitchen still life with fowl, a copper pot, rolls on tin plates, apples and black grapes in a basket and mushrooms on a stoneware plate, all on a table, together with herring, a salmon, and other fish, a string of onions, red cabbages and other vegetables, carrots and artichokes in a basket, meat on a stoneware plate, and a copper pot, all on another table, an amourous couple behind the left table, a merry company playing tric trac beyond
signed lower centre on the table: C. JD ( in compendium) elff Fc.
- oil on canvas, unframed
Catalogue Note
In the wake of Pieter Aertsen and Joachim Beuckelaer, Delff is part of a second generation of kitchen still life painters. He painted these compositions around the first decade of the 17th century, adding to the still life a background scene, in this case both referring to the pleasures and leisures of life. A similar composition is at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond (see S.A. Sullivan, The Dutch Gamepiece, Totowa, New Jersey, 1984, p. 11, reproduced fig. 11).