Bunches of grapes, raspberries, plums, a melon, peaches and apricots with a snail on a ledge

Details

Jan van Doornik (active circa 1706-1734)
Bunches of grapes, raspberries, plums, a melon, peaches and apricots with a snail on a ledge
indistinctly signed (strengthened) and dated (strengthened) J V Doornik/fecit 1712 lower right
oil on panel
42.2 x 31.3 cm

Provenance

Ir. A.B. Kelder, Rijswijk, 1956.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The present lot is one of only five known paintings by the artist, including a landscape, signed and dated 1734, offered at Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1996, lot 234, ill., and a pair of portraits, signed and dated 1731, in the National Gallery, Washington. Only one other still life, offered at Christie's, London, 28 June 1935, lot 90, is known.
The present picture appears to have been cleaned after 1956, since an ear of corn running through the centre and a plum hanging from the ledge, lower right, are no longer present.

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