Lot 60A
  • 60A

18th Century Follower of Jan Davidsz. De Heem

Estimate
12,000 - 16,000 USD
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Description

  • Still Life of Strawberries, Oysters and a Peeled Lemon
  • oil on cradled panel
  • 17 by 14 in.
  • 43.2 by 35.6 cm

Provenance

Edward Foote Hinkle, 1894;
The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 11 March 1977, lot 133 (as Johannes Hannot);
With Nordest Gallery, Boston.

Condition

The work is in good condition, the panel is cradled, light pigment shrinkage throughout. There is a vertical crack at center right running through the length of the work. UNDER UV: There is inpainting fill-in in the above mentioned cracking, Split at right side of panel fluoresces.
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Catalogue Note

This painting repeats a composition by de Heem, signed and dated 1652, in the Národní Galerie, Prague (inv. no. O 1376).