English Follower of Pieter Gerritsz. van Roestraeten

Oscar and Maria Salzer, Los Angeles;
By whom given to the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science, 1983 (acc. no. FMM 82.60).

Los Angeles, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California; Seattle, WA, Seattle Art Museum; Honolulu, HI, Honolulu Academy of Art; Santa Barbara, CA, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Reality and Deception, 16 October 1974 – 20 April 1975, cat. no. 78, reproduced (as Dutch School, 17th Century).

Portraits of Objects, Oscar and Maria Salzer Collection of Still Life and Trompe-L'Oeil Paintings, Fresno 1984, cat. no. 49, reproduced (as Dutch, 17th Century).

Relined and surface has been pressed as a result. the paint surface on the beer tankard has been abraded and this object has lost some of its detail and definition. the other objects are better preserved though there is some thinness to parts of the silver vessel. background darks have sunken a bit. there appears to be a canvas seam running from top to bottom edge at far right side. examinnation under ultraviolet reveals retouchings scattered throughout, especially in background; there are numerous retouches and inpaints of craquelure on the white tablecloth, some along canvas seam at right and some larger areas at center right of composition. In a brown wood frame with minor nicks.
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