Lot 489
  • 489

Pseudo-Roestraeten

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pseudo-Roestraeten
  • A vanitas still life
  • oil on canvas laid down on board

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 17 June 1980, lot 517 (as Dutch School).

Catalogue Note

The Pseudo-Roestraeten is the name coined by Fred Meijer of the RKD, The Hague, given to the anonymous artist (or artists) who produced a relatively large number of still lifes, usually depicting arrangements of books, documents and precious objects displayed on an oriental carpet. Though related to still lifes by Pieter Gerritsz. Roestraeten, who was active in Holland and England, Fred Meijer believes the artist may have been of German origin. He notes that many works by this master have been found in old English collections, suggesting that the artist may have been active in England.

We are grateful to Fred Meijer for confirming this as a work by the Pseudo-Roestraeten on the basis of digital images.

1. See A. Willigen and F.G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-Life Painters Working in Oils, 1525-1725, Leiden 2003, p. 227.