Lot 23
23
Jacques de Claeuw (active Dordrecht, The Hague, Leiden; d. after 1676)
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Jacques de Claeuw (active Dordrecht, The Hague, Leiden; d. after 1676)

A vanitas still life with a globe, books, a skull, a violin, a flute, a letter and flowers on a draped ledge

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Jacques de Claeuw (active Dordrecht, The Hague, Leiden; d. after 1676)
A vanitas still life with a globe, books, a skull, a violin, a flute, a letter and flowers on a draped ledge
oil on panel
14½ x 18½ in. (37 x 47 cm.)
Provenance
Edmond des Robert, Nancy, 1954.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Mr. Fred Meijer of the RKD for the attribution; he regards the painting as a 'characterstic, fairly early work' of the artist, and compares it to de Claeuw's painting in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. no. A1444), which is indistinctly dated 16(50).

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