School of Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606-1684)

A Still Life with Roses, a Nautilus Shell, a Beaker and a Roemer with a peeled Lemon and a Pomegranate on a partially draped Table

Details

School of Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606-1684)
Heem, J.
A Still Life with Roses, a Nautilus Shell, a Beaker and a Roemer with a peeled Lemon and a Pomegranate on a partially draped Table
oil on canvas
21 x 25in. (53.5 x 63.5cm.)

Provenance

with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, no. 38 (as Sant Acker).
Pierre Lamy, Paris.
with Seilerheld, New York, 1968, no. 37, as Jan Davidsz. de Heem.
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, London, June 23, 1982, no. 4, as Jan Davidsz. de Heem.

Literature

S. Segal, in the catalogue of the exhibition, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, and Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig, 1991, under no. 40, as a variant 'by another hand' of a painting signed by Guilliam Gabron in the Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp (Inv. no. 486).

Lot Essay

In the catalogue of the 1982 sale, it was noted that Prof. Ingvar Bergstrm suggested that the present lot was painted by de Heem during his Leyden period and can be compared to a painting of a similar subject in the Schoonemann collection, Bremen.