ISAACK ADAMSZ. DE COLONIA | Still life with a Northern lapwing

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 8 December 1946, lot 71;

Anonymous sale, Lucerne, Fischer, 21-25 October 1947, lot 2980, where acquired.

E. Gemar-Költzsch et al, Holländische Stillebenmaler im 17. Jahrhundert, Lingen 1995, vol. II, p. 252, under no. 78/7 (as Jacques de Claeuw, with a wrong transcription of the signature and the illustration in reverse);

R. Ekkart, 'De Rotterdamse portrettist Jan Daemen Cool (ca. 1589-1600)', in Oud Holland, vol. 111, 1997, p. 214, reproduced fig. 8, and p. 219, footnote 61;

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 5, Stilleben und Tierstücke, Münster/Hamburg/London 2004, pp. 98-101, cat. no. 16, reproduced in colour;

W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M. J. Bok et al, At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 118, cat. no. 124, reproduced in colour.

Rotterdam, Kunsthal, At Home in the Golden Age, 9 February – 18 May 2008, no. 124;

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Isaack de Colonia, who was the father of the painter Adam de Colonia (1634-1685), was an art dealer and produced mainly portraits, of which there are only two known signed examples. This still life appears to be the only one known by Colonia.