PIETER CLAESZ | Still life with a roemer, olives, a half-peeled lemon, bread rolls and fish on pewter plates, all on a table draped with a white cloth

With Wilhelm & P. Mohnen, Rottach-Egern, 1968;

Carl Schünemann, Bremen, 1972;

With Galerie Cramer, The Hague, 1979, from whom acquired.

N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message as Intimated by the Painters of the 'Monochrome Banketje', Schiedam 1980, vol. II, p. 39, cat. no. 168, reproduced vol. I, p. 45, fig. 52;

P.J. Harke, Stilleben von Paula Modersohn-Becker, Bremen 1985, p. 89;

A. Schnyder-von Waldkirch, 'Trinkgefäße im Laufe der Zeit', in Hotel Journal, Switzerland 1994, p. 19;

Raupp 2004, pp. 82–85, cat. no. 12, reproduced in colour;

M. Brunner-Bulst, Pieter Claesz., Lingen 2004, p. 314, cat. no. 189, reproduced in colour p. 109;

Rotterdam 2008, p. 65, cat. no. 44, reproduced in colour.

Rotterdam 2008, no. 44.

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Friedrich von Amerling, the first recorded owner of this painting, was court painter to Franz Josef between 1835–80. He was one of Austria’s most successful 19th century painters, and one of the most important representatives of the Biedermeier period.