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Jacob Foppens van Es
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description
- Jacob Foppens van Es
- Still life with a fish on a terracotta plate, bunches of asparagus, artichokes and cherries in a scalloped dish, together with half a cheese in a basket, bread rolls, fraises de bois, lemons, oranges and crabs all arranged on a table top
- oil on canvas
Provenance
With Leonard Koetser, London, 1968;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 29 October 1999, lot 44.
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 29 October 1999, lot 44.
Literature
Advertisement in Apollo, May 1968, p. xli, reproduced in colour, as F. Snijders;
F.G. Meijer, in Asperges in olieverf, exhibition catalogue, Venlo 2005, pp. 27, 29, reproduced in colour fig. 20.
F.G. Meijer, in Asperges in olieverf, exhibition catalogue, Venlo 2005, pp. 27, 29, reproduced in colour fig. 20.
Catalogue Note
As Fred G. Meijer has previously pointed out, this impressive still life has much in common with several signed works by Jacob Foppens van Es including the slightly smaller 1631 dated work in a private Amsterdam collection.1
1. Exhibited Amsterdam, Amsterdams Historisch Museum,17e-eeuwse schilderijen uit de verzameling Willem Russell, 20 June - 13 September 1970, no. 28.