Lot 138
  • 138

Frans van Everbroeck

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Frans van Everbroeck
  • A cartouche still life of flowers and fruit around a portrait of a lady dressed as a shepherdess
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Josef Cremer (1845–1938), Dortmund, by 1914.

Literature

H. Voss et al., Collection Geheimrat Kommerzienrat Cremer, Dortmund, Dortmund 1914, p. 67, reproduced fig. 165 (as Daniel Seghers).

Condition

The canvas has been relined. The paint surface is clean and the varnish slightly discoloured. Under ultra violet inspection an uneven layer of varnish is evident. Furthermore retouching is visible throughout the dark tones in the floral decoration, and throughout the woman's clothing and in her surrounding foliage. Overall the painting is in stable condition. The work is offered in a moulded gilt wood frame.
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Catalogue Note

The figure in the centre of the composition appears to have been added by an as yet unidentified hand. We are grateful to Dr Fred G. Meijer for endorsing the attribution of the still life to Everbroeck on the basis of digital photographs.