Details
Floris van Schooten (? c. 1585-after 1655 Haarlem)
Pewter plates with opened oysters, two mackerel, a bun, oyster shells, a bag of tobacco, matches, a white clay pipe, a berkemeier of white wine, a red earthenware brazier with embers and a pewter oval tobacco tin on a wooden table
signed with monogram 'FvS' (lower left) and inscribed with an unidentified collector's mark of a tassled mitre and crook and the letters 'y.spina' (lower left)
oil on panel
35.6 x 49.4 cm.
inscribed with a personal mark on the lid of the tobacco tin
Provenance
Rafael Goreta, before 1930.
With C. Benedict & Co., Berlin, 1930.
Private collection, Amsterdam, 1930; involuntarily sold to Germany via I. Looy due to war-time living expenses and emigration plans, 1943.
Taken to the Munich Central Point (no. 4397), whence recuperated to The Netherlands, 29 March 1946 (no. 688).
Instituut Collectie Nederland (earlier the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit the Rijksdienst voor Beeldende Kunst), inv. no. NK1644.
On long-term loan to the Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem, inv. no. 488a.
Restituted to the lawful owner's heir in 2003.
Literature
H.E. van Gelder, W.C. Heda, A. van Beyeren, W. Kalf, Amsterdam, 1941, pp. 7-8, illustrated.
N.R.A. Vroom, De schilders van het monochrome banketje, Amsterdam, 1945, pp. 97-8, no. 252, illustrated.
G.A. Brongers, Nicotiana tabacum: The history of tobacco and tobacco smoking in the Netherlands, Groningen, 1964, p. 32, illustrated.
P. Gammelbo, 'Floris Gerritsz. van Schooten', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, XVII, 1966, pp. 105-42, no. 61, illustrated.
Frans Halsmuseum Haarlem, Haarlem, 1969, p. 59, no. 488a.
W. Bernt, The Netherlandish Painters of the Seventeenth Century, Munich, 1969/70, III, no. 1052, illustrated.
N.R.A. Vroom, A modest message as intimated by the painters of the 'Monochrome Banketje', Schiedam, 1980, II, p.114, no. 574, illustrated.
O. ter Kuile, Seventeenth-century North Netherlandish Still Lifes, The Hague, 1985, VI, pp. 166-7, no. VI-52, illustrated.
Old Master Paintings: An illustrated summary catalogue, The Netherlandish Office for the Fine Arts, Zwolle, 1992, p. 270, illustrated.
E. Muller en H. Schretlen, Betwist Bezit: de Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit en de teruggave van roofkunst na 1945, Zwolle, 2002, pp. 163, 167 and 193-4, illustrated.
Exhibited
Haarlem, Frans Halsmuseum, on loan from the Instituut Collectie Nederland since 1953.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Hollandische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, 1953, no. 141.
Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Mostra di pittura olandese del seicento, 4 January-14 February 1954, no. 144, illustrated.
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Rome, Mostra di pittura olandese del seicento, 25 February-25 April 1954, no. 146.
Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Liège, Musée des Beaux Arts and Luxembourg, Galerie Municipale de Peinture, Het Hollandse Stilleven 1550-1950, 1957, no. 53, illustrated.
The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Taal en Teken, 7 May-5 July 1965.
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