Pieter Claesz. (Burgsteinfurt, Westphalia c. 1597-1660 Haarlem)

A lemon, a partly peeled lemon, grapes, a roemer and knife on a stone ledge

Details

Pieter Claesz. (Burgsteinfurt, Westphalia c. 1597-1660 Haarlem)
A lemon, a partly peeled lemon, grapes, a roemer and knife on a stone ledge
signed with monogram and dated 'PC A^o 1627' (lower left)
oil on panel
8 x 10 in. (21 x 25.5 cm.)

Provenance

Frits Lugt, Maartensdijk.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 29 March 1968, lot 79 (10,000 gns.).
David Koetser, Geneva, from whom acquired by the present owner circa 1970.

Literature

R. Warner, Dutch and Flemish Fruit and Flower Painters of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries, London, 1928, no. 22a, as Pieter Claesz.
N.R.A. Vroom, De Schilders van het Monochrome Banketje, Amsterdam, 1945, no. 29, as Pieter Claesz.
N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message as Intimated by the Painters of the 'Monochrome Banketje', Schiedam, 1980, I, p. 155, fig. 206; II, no. 225, fig. 206, as Franchoys Elout.

Exhibited

The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Nederlandsche stillevens uit vijf eeuwen, 1926, no. 26, as Pieter Claesz.

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Mr. Fred Meijer for confirming the attribution on the basis of a photograph (oral communication, 22 April 1999). Dr. Martina Brunner-Bulst has studied the picture and also confirms the attribution; she will include it in her forthcoming catalogue raisonn of the artist's work (oral communication, 6 May 1999).

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