Master Paintings Part II

Master Paintings Part II

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 524. Still life of artichokes, grapes and a melon in a basket, a hung peacock, roebuck and grouse, together with a parrot and a monkey, a cat jumping through a window beyond.

Property from the Estate of Paul Kasmin

Workshop of Frans Snyders

Still life of artichokes, grapes and a melon in a basket, a hung peacock, roebuck and grouse, together with a parrot and a monkey, a cat jumping through a window beyond

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January 30, 03:24 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Paul Kasmin

Workshop of Frans Snyders

Antwerp 1579 - 1657

Still life of artichokes, grapes and a melon in a basket, a hung peacock, roebuck and grouse, together with a parrot and a monkey, a cat jumping through a window beyond


oil on canvas

canvas: 66 3/4 by 47 1/2 in.; 169.3 by 120.6 cm.

framed: 69 1/2 by 50 in.; 176.5 by 127 cm. 

Chevalier Jean-Paul de la Valette, who married Gertruyde van Snyders (possibly a descendant of the painter) in 1762, and who bought Burg Sülz near Cologne;
Thence by descent to their grandson, Philipp de la Valette St. George, who married Baroness Franziska von Broe zu Diepenbend, Heiress of Haus Auel in the Siegerland, and who brought the picture to Schloß Auel to hang in the Jagdzimmer;
Thence by descent to Baroness Tatiana de la Valette St. George, by whom removed from Schloß Auel and sold, London, Sotheby's, July 11, 2002, lot 144 (as Frans Snyders and Studio);
There acquired by Giancarlo Baroni;
By whose estate sold, New York, Sotheby's, 31 January 2013, lot 166;
There acquired by Paul Kasmin. 
At the time of the 2002 sale (see Provenance), Fred G. Meijer confirmed the present painting to be a work by Frans Snyders, with some studio assistance.  Since then, another version of this composition has come to light in the reserve collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and has been studied further by Drs. Meijer; he now believes that picture to be entirely by the hand of Snyders and most probably the prime version of the composition.  He now considers the present work to have been painted largely by an artist in Snyders' studio, possibly Paul de Vos (1595-1678).