Cauliflower, onions, peaches, cherries, artichokes, roses in a glass vase, a jug, a basket with carrots, cabbages and eggs with a blue cloth on a table

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Jan Josef Horemans II (Antwerp 1714- after 1790)
Cauliflower, onions, peaches, cherries, artichokes, roses in a glass vase, a jug, a basket with carrots, cabbages and eggs with a blue cloth on a table
signed and dated 'J.Horemans 1773' (strengthened?, lower right)
oil on panel
17¼ x 24 in. (43.8 x 61 cm.)

Provenance

with Robert Flink, from whom acquired in the early 1950s by the father of the anonymous vendor, below.
Anon. Sale [The Property of a Gentleman], Sotheby's, London, 9 July 1998, lot 363 (sold £58,700).
with Spink-Leger, London.

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Lot Essay

This and the following lot, which is painted on canvas, were for long considered pendants. Such still lifes are extremely rare within Horemans' oeuvre, which primarily consisted of genre scenes; another example, also signed and dated 1773, was sold, Sotheby's, London, 14 December 2000, lot 23 (£48,800). They are not dissimilar stylistically, and may be a reaction, to the still lifes of Jan Josef's elder brother, Pieter Jacob Horemans: see, for example, the pair of still lifes with figures by the latter of 1756 offered for sale, Neumeister, 26 June 2002, lot 637.

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