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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
JAN DAVIDSZ. DE HEEM (UTRECHT 1606-1684 ANTWERP)
A pie on a pewter plate, a partially peeled lemon and overturned silver spoon on a pewter plate, crayfish and shrimp in a Wanli bowl, fruit, a walnut and an oyster on a pewter plate, a basket of fruit, a fluted glass, a silver-gilt cup, a roemer, an overturned silver tazza on a strong box, a silver ewer and a bread roll all on a partially draped table with a curtain beyond
Details
JAN DAVIDSZ. DE HEEM (UTRECHT 1606-1684 ANTWERP)
A pie on a pewter plate, a partially peeled lemon and overturned silver spoon on a pewter plate, crayfish and shrimp in a Wanli bowl, fruit, a walnut and an oyster on a pewter plate, a basket of fruit, a fluted glass, a silver-gilt cup, a roemer, an overturned silver tazza on a strong box, a silver ewer and a bread roll all on a partially draped table with a curtain beyond
signed and dated ‘J. De Heem f. A° 1649’ (lower left, on the table)
oil on canvas
29 3⁄8 x 44 3⁄8 in. (75.3 x 112.7 cm.)
A pie on a pewter plate, a partially peeled lemon and overturned silver spoon on a pewter plate, crayfish and shrimp in a Wanli bowl, fruit, a walnut and an oyster on a pewter plate, a basket of fruit, a fluted glass, a silver-gilt cup, a roemer, an overturned silver tazza on a strong box, a silver ewer and a bread roll all on a partially draped table with a curtain beyond
signed and dated ‘J. De Heem f. A° 1649’ (lower left, on the table)
oil on canvas
29 3⁄8 x 44 3⁄8 in. (75.3 x 112.7 cm.)
Provenance
(Possibly) Jacques Meijers (d. 1721), Rotterdam; his sale (†), Willis, Rotterdam, 9 September 1722, lot 118 (f 225).
E.H. Davenport, Davenport House, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, by 1881, and by inheritance to his daughter,
Mrs. Leicester-Warren; Christie’s, London, 12 June 1931, lot 74 (740 gns. to Collings).
Alexander Jergen, Cincinnati, presumably by 1931 and until 1984.
with French & Co., New York, 1984.
Linda and Gerald Guterman; their sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 14 January 1988, lot 19, where acquired by the following,
with Thomas Brod, London.
Private collection, Germany.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Christie’s, London, 3 December 1997, lot 22, where acquired.
E.H. Davenport, Davenport House, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, by 1881, and by inheritance to his daughter,
Mrs. Leicester-Warren; Christie’s, London, 12 June 1931, lot 74 (740 gns. to Collings).
Alexander Jergen, Cincinnati, presumably by 1931 and until 1984.
with French & Co., New York, 1984.
Linda and Gerald Guterman; their sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 14 January 1988, lot 19, where acquired by the following,
with Thomas Brod, London.
Private collection, Germany.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Christie’s, London, 3 December 1997, lot 22, where acquired.
Literature
G. Hoet, Catalogus of naamlyst van schilderyen met derzelver pryzen…, I, The Hague, 1752, p. 277, no. 118.
G. Keyes, in Dutch and Flemish Masters – Paintings from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, exhibition catalogue, Minneapolis, Houston and San Diego, 1985, p. 52, under no. 17.
‘Auction: Sotheby’s: Thursday January 14,’ Tableau, X, December 1987, p. 83, illustrated.
F. Fox Hofrichter, ‘Review of the exhibition A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands 1600-1700,’ The Burlington Magazine, CXXX, no. 1029, December 1988, pp. 962-963, fig. 109.
C. Hergenröder, ‘Gesunder Markt mit Hochpreistendenzen. Altmeistergemälde in den vergangenen Jahren,’ Kunst und Antiquitäten, 5⁄88, 1988, pp. 16-17, illustrated.
S. Segal, ‘De Heem and his Circle,’ in A Prosperous Past, exhibition catalogue, Delft, Cambridge, MA and Fort Worth, 1988, pp. 151-153, plate 40, as ‘[a] magnificent work’.
S. Segal, ‘De rijkdom verbeeld,’ Tableau, X, no. 6, 1988, pp. 67 and 69, illustrated.
I. de Wavren, ‘Le Triomphe de l’Éphémère,’ L’objet d’art, III, June 1988, pp. 102-103, illustrated in reverse.
F.G. Meijer, ‘Book review of Exh. Cat. A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands 1600-1700,’ Simiolus, XX, 1990⁄1, no. 1, p. 96.
S. Segal, in Jan Davidsz de Heem en zijn kring, exhibition catalogue, Utrecht and Braunschweig, 1991, p. 214, note 1.
J. Briels, Vlaamse schilders en de dageraad van Hollands Gouden Eeuw, 1585-1630. Met biografieën als bijlage, Antwerp, 1997, p. 281, illustrated.
‘Adjugé,’ L’Estampille, March 1998, p. 19, illustrated.
C. Fritzsche, Der Betrachter im Stilleben. Raumerfahrung und Erzählstrukturen in der niederländischen Stillebenmalerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, Weimar, 2010, pp. 55, 62-63, 92-93, 104, 175 and 284, fig. 16.
F.G. Meijer, Jan Davidsz. de Heem 1606-1684, I, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Amsterdam, 2016, pp. 105, 157-158, 160-161, 192, 209, 358, illustrated; II, pp. 141-142 and 308, no. A 121.
F.G. Meijer, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, 1606-1684, I, Zwolle, 2024, pp. 210-211, fig. 253, illustrated (detail), as ‘[t]he core work for the year 1649’; II, pp. 588-589, no. 126, illustrated.
F.G. Meijer, Opulence Distilled: The Still Lifes by Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Antwerp, 2024, p. 53, fig. 54, as ‘[t]he core work for the year 1649’.
G. Keyes, in Dutch and Flemish Masters – Paintings from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, exhibition catalogue, Minneapolis, Houston and San Diego, 1985, p. 52, under no. 17.
‘Auction: Sotheby’s: Thursday January 14,’ Tableau, X, December 1987, p. 83, illustrated.
F. Fox Hofrichter, ‘Review of the exhibition A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands 1600-1700,’ The Burlington Magazine, CXXX, no. 1029, December 1988, pp. 962-963, fig. 109.
C. Hergenröder, ‘Gesunder Markt mit Hochpreistendenzen. Altmeistergemälde in den vergangenen Jahren,’ Kunst und Antiquitäten, 5⁄88, 1988, pp. 16-17, illustrated.
S. Segal, ‘De Heem and his Circle,’ in A Prosperous Past, exhibition catalogue, Delft, Cambridge, MA and Fort Worth, 1988, pp. 151-153, plate 40, as ‘[a] magnificent work’.
S. Segal, ‘De rijkdom verbeeld,’ Tableau, X, no. 6, 1988, pp. 67 and 69, illustrated.
I. de Wavren, ‘Le Triomphe de l’Éphémère,’ L’objet d’art, III, June 1988, pp. 102-103, illustrated in reverse.
F.G. Meijer, ‘Book review of Exh. Cat. A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands 1600-1700,’ Simiolus, XX, 1990⁄1, no. 1, p. 96.
S. Segal, in Jan Davidsz de Heem en zijn kring, exhibition catalogue, Utrecht and Braunschweig, 1991, p. 214, note 1.
J. Briels, Vlaamse schilders en de dageraad van Hollands Gouden Eeuw, 1585-1630. Met biografieën als bijlage, Antwerp, 1997, p. 281, illustrated.
‘Adjugé,’ L’Estampille, March 1998, p. 19, illustrated.
C. Fritzsche, Der Betrachter im Stilleben. Raumerfahrung und Erzählstrukturen in der niederländischen Stillebenmalerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, Weimar, 2010, pp. 55, 62-63, 92-93, 104, 175 and 284, fig. 16.
F.G. Meijer, Jan Davidsz. de Heem 1606-1684, I, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Amsterdam, 2016, pp. 105, 157-158, 160-161, 192, 209, 358, illustrated; II, pp. 141-142 and 308, no. A 121.
F.G. Meijer, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, 1606-1684, I, Zwolle, 2024, pp. 210-211, fig. 253, illustrated (detail), as ‘[t]he core work for the year 1649’; II, pp. 588-589, no. 126, illustrated.
F.G. Meijer, Opulence Distilled: The Still Lifes by Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Antwerp, 2024, p. 53, fig. 54, as ‘[t]he core work for the year 1649’.
Exhibited
Whitechapel, London, Saint Jude’s School House, Annual Fine Art Loan Exhibition, 1886, no. 138.
Cincinnati, Cincinnati Museum of Art, until 1984, on loan.
Delft, Stedelijk Museum het Prinsenhof; Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum and Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, De Rijkdom Verbeeld / A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands, 1600-1700, 1988, no. 40 (cat. by S. Segal).
Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Jan Davidsz de Heem und sein Kreis, 1991, no. 7A (cat. by S. Segal).
Cincinnati, Cincinnati Museum of Art, until 1984, on loan.
Delft, Stedelijk Museum het Prinsenhof; Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum and Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, De Rijkdom Verbeeld / A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands, 1600-1700, 1988, no. 40 (cat. by S. Segal).
Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Jan Davidsz de Heem und sein Kreis, 1991, no. 7A (cat. by S. Segal).
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