Clara Peeters (1594-1640)

Grapes, pears, apples and a peach in a basket, with a roemer, a facon-de-Venise partially gilt glass cup and cover, hazelnuts and walnuts on a wooden ledge

Details

Clara Peeters (1594-1640)
Grapes, pears, apples and a peach in a basket, with a roemer, a facon-de-Venise partially gilt glass cup and cover, hazelnuts and walnuts on a wooden ledge
signed lower right CLARA.P.
oil on panel
29.5 x 40.5 cm

Provenance

H.Wetzlar, Amsterdam
Arbuthnot; Sale, Christie's London, 23 June 1923, lot 210
with Bottenweiser, Frankfurt

Literature

N.R.A. Vroom, De schilders van het monochrome banketje, 1945, p.116, p.215, n^.238, p.117, fig.100
W.Bernt, Die niederländischen Maler des 17. Jahrhunderts, 1948, II, n^.638, with ill.
M.L.Hairs, Les Peintres Flamands des Fleurs au XVII^. siècle, 1955, p.127
E.Greindl, Les Peintres Flamands de Nature Morte au XVII^. siècle, 1956, p.34, p.174
N.R.A.Vroom, A Modest Message as intimated by the Painters of the 'Monochrome banketje', II, 1980, p.105, n^.524
P.Hibbs Decoteau, Clara Peeters, 1992, pp.41-42, p.182, p.41, fig.28

Lot Essay

As P. Hibbs Decouteau, op. cit, p.41-42, points out, there is a striking similarity between the present lot and the signed picture in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The Ashmolean picture can be dated to 1620-1630, on the basis of the depicted silver ducat or Brabant coin, struck in that decade. The same basket of fruit appears in both works, and the rendering of the highlights on the vines and leaves is very similar in both pictures. However, since the present lot shows a lower viewpoint, a reduction of objects and a more condensed composition, Hibbs Decouteau suggest a date of execution in the late 1620s.

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