GASPAR VAN DEN HOECKE* (c. 1575-c. 1648)

THE PROPERTY OF A DECEASED ESTATE SOLD BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES

Details

GASPAR VAN DEN HOECKE* (c. 1575-c. 1648)

Lilies, Tulips, Irises, and other Flowers in an earthenware Jug, with Borage, Redcurrants, and wild Strawberries on a wooden Ledge

oil on panel
26½ x 17½in. (67.5 x 44.5cm.)

Provenance

with Eugene Slatter, London, (Paintings of Life and Still-life by Dutch and Flemish Masters, May-July, 1946, no. 2, illustrated), from whom purchased by
Sir Bernard Eckstein; Sotheby's, London, Dec. 8, 1948, lot 2 as Jan Brueghel II (where purchased by Agnews on behalf of the father of the present owner)

Lot Essay

The attribution, first proposed by Fred G. Meijer of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, was subsequently supported by Dr. Sam Segal. Both base their opinion on comparison with van de Hoecke's signed and dated painting of 1614 in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Inv. no. PD28-1966). Another very similar still life by the artist was with Douwes Fine Art, Amsterdam, 1989 (see Tableau Fine Arts Magazine, II, no. 6, Summer 1989)