Willem Claesz. Heda

Still life with a roemer, an upturned tazza, nuts, acorns, a knife and a peeled and sliced lemon on a pewter plate

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Willem Claesz. Heda

Haarlem circa 1596–1680

Still life with a roemer, an upturned tazza, nuts, acorns, a knife and a peeled and sliced lemon on a pewter plate

signed and dated lower left: .HEDA.1630.

oil on oak panel

unframed: 45 x 60.5 cm.; 17¾ x 23⅞ in.

framed: 64 x 79.2 cm.; 25¼ x 31⅛ in.

Please note this painting is displayed in a loan frame from Arnold Wiggins and Sons. Should you wish to purchase it please contact a member of the Old Master Paintings department.

Hermann Sthamer, Hamburg;

His sale ('Der gemälde-sammlung des herrn Hermann Sthamer in Hamburg'), Cologne, J.M. Heberle, 8–9 October 1883, 1st day of sale, lot 44;

Where acquired by Konsul Eduard Friedrich Weber (1830–1907), Hamburg;

By whose estate sold (‘Galerie Weber, Hamburg’), Berlin, Rudolph Lepke, 20–22 February 1912, 2nd day of sale, lot 228, for 4,300 Marks to Wesselhoeft, Hamburg;

Johannes Wesselhoeft (1862–1951), Hamburg;

Acquired by P. De Boer, Amsterdam, 1953;

From whom acquired by Dr Heinrich Becker, Dortmund, by 1967;

With G. Cramer Oude Kunst, The Hague, 1975–76;

Private collection.

J. von Pflugk-Hartung in Separatabdruck aus dem Repertorium, 1885, vol. 8, p. 94;

J. Nöhring, Gemälde alter Meister der Sammlung Weber, Lubeck 1898, n.p., reproduced;

K. Woermann, Wissenschaftliches Verzeichnis der älteren Gemälde der Galerie Weber in Hamburg, rev. and enlarged ed., Dresden 1907, pp. 158–59;

N.R.A. Vroom, De schilders van het monochrome banketje, Amsterdam 1945, pp. 71 and 210, no. 178;

R. Fritz (ed.), Sammlung Becker. I Gemälde Alter Meister, Dortmund 1967, n.p., no. 68, reproduced;

Paintings by Old Masters XX, Gallery G. Cramer Oude Kunst, The Hague 1975–76, pp. 66–67, no. 34, reproduced;

G. Langemeyer and H-A. Peters (eds), Stilleben in Europa, exh. cat., Münster and Baden-Baden, 1979, pp. 425–26, no. 223, reproduced;

N.R.A. Vroom, A modest message: as intimated by the painters of the 'monochrome banketje', vol. 2, Schiedam 1980, p. 66, no. 329, reproduced;

W.L. van de Watering (ed.), Terugzien in bewondering. A Collector's Choice, exh. cat., The Hague 1982, pp. 125–24, no. 42, reproduced;

N.R.A. Vroom, A modest message: as intimated by the painters of the 'monochrome banketje', Nuremberg 1999, pp. 128, 129 and 152, reproduced figs 97 and 98;

C. Schmincke, Sammler in Hamburg. Der Kaufmann und Kunstfreund Konsul Eduard Friedrich Weber (1830–1907), PhD. Diss., Hamburg 2004, pp. 191 and 387, no. 228.

The Hague, G. Cramer Oude Kunst, Paintings by Old Masters XX, 1975–76, no. 34;

Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, and Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Stilleben in Europa, 25 November 1979 – 24 February 1980 and 15 March – 15 June 1980, no. 223;

The Hague, Mauritshuis, Terugzien in bewondering. A Collector's Choice, 19 February – 9 March 1982, no. 42.