A sliced melon, apples, pears, plums, gherkins by two pewter plates, with nuts and black and white grapes by a white cloth on a table with a wicker basket hanging from a wall

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Jan Josef Horemans II (Antwerp 1714-after 1790)
A sliced melon, apples, pears, plums, gherkins by two pewter plates, with nuts and black and white grapes by a white cloth on a table with a wicker basket hanging from a wall
signed 'J.Horemans' (strengthened?, lower right)
oil on canvas
17¼ x 23½ in. (43.8 x 59.8 cm.)

Provenance

with Robert Flink, from whom acquired in the early 1950s by the father of the anonymous vendor, below.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Sotheby's, London, 9 July 1998, lot 364.
with Spink-Leger, London.

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Lot Essay

This lot, painted on canvas, is a rare example of a still life within Horemans' oeuvre, which primarily consisted of genre scenes; it was for long erroneously considered a pendant to the painting sold, Sotheby's, London, 9 July 1998, lot 363; another example, signed and dated 1773, was sold, Sotheby's, London, 14 December 2000, lot 23. They are not dissimilar stylistically, and may be a reaction, to the still lifes of Jan Josef's elder brother, Pieter Jacob Horemans: see, for example, the pair of still lifes with figures by the latter of 1756 offered for sale, Neumeister, 26 June 2002, lot 637.

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