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Grapes in a basket, peaches on a silver dish, chestnuts, a Large White and two Red Admiral butterflies, a fly and a snail on a vine tendril, on a red velvet cloth over a partly draped ledge
Details
Willem van Aelst (Delft 1627 - after 1686 Amsterdam)
Grapes in a basket, peaches on a silver dish, chestnuts, a Large White and two Red Admiral butterflies, a fly and a snail on a vine tendril, on a red velvet cloth over a partly draped ledge
signed: 'Guill mo van.Aelst' (upper right)
oil on canvas
29.1/8 x 22¼ in. (74 x 56.5 cm.)
Grapes in a basket, peaches on a silver dish, chestnuts, a Large White and two Red Admiral butterflies, a fly and a snail on a vine tendril, on a red velvet cloth over a partly draped ledge
signed: 'Guill
oil on canvas
29.1/8 x 22¼ in. (74 x 56.5 cm.)
Provenance
with Galerie St. Lukas, Vienna, 1936.
B. de Geus van den Heuvel, Loenersloot; sale, Amsterdam, 26 April 1976, lot 1.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 30 March 1979, lot 36 (£26,000).
B. de Geus van den Heuvel, Loenersloot; sale, Amsterdam, 26 April 1976, lot 1.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 30 March 1979, lot 36 (£26,000).
Exhibited
Maastricht, Stedelijk Museum, Limburgsche Kunstkring, Oude Kunst, August 1939, no. 34.
Schiedam, Stedelijk Museum, 1951-2, no. 1.
Schiedam, Stedelijk Museum, 1957-8.
Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum, Collectie B. de Geus van den Heuvel te Nieuwersluis, 1960-1, no. 1, pl. 58.
Haarlem, Frans Halsmuseum, De landman en de muze, June-Aug. 1965, no. 1.
Schiedam, Stedelijk Museum, 1951-2, no. 1.
Schiedam, Stedelijk Museum, 1957-8.
Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum, Collectie B. de Geus van den Heuvel te Nieuwersluis, 1960-1, no. 1, pl. 58.
Haarlem, Frans Halsmuseum, De landman en de muze, June-Aug. 1965, no. 1.