Dutch School, 17th century

With Rene Millet, Paris (inv. no. 39/39);

Anonymous sale, Paris, Beaussant Lefèvre, 10 December 1999, lot 15;

Where acquired by the present collector.

This piscatorial still life features an assortment of fish, including a salmon steak, as well as a small conch shell, all arrayed on a wooden table. Though the monogram "i H." refers to an artist who remains to be identified, the painting was likely painted in mid-seventeenth-century Holland.