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A poor man's meal: a loaf of bread, porridge, buns and a herring on a wooden table
Details
Hieronymus Francken II (Antwerp 1578-1623)
A poor man's meal: a loaf of bread, porridge, buns and a herring on a wooden table
indistinctly signed with monogram and dated 'HF/1599' (on the knife)
oil on panel
35.8 x 45.7 cm.
A poor man's meal: a loaf of bread, porridge, buns and a herring on a wooden table
indistinctly signed with monogram and dated 'HF/1599' (on the knife)
oil on panel
35.8 x 45.7 cm.
Provenance
With Galerie Manteau, Brussels, until 1934.
With P. de Boer, Amsterdam.
Dr. R.T. Mees, The Hague.
With P. de Boer, Amsterdam (according to a label on the reverse).
With P. de Boer, Amsterdam.
Dr. R.T. Mees, The Hague.
With P. de Boer, Amsterdam (according to a label on the reverse).
Literature
I. Bergström, Studier i Hollandskt Stillebenmaleri under 1600-talet, Göteborg, 1947, pp. 30-1 and 296, note 50, pp. 24 and 297, note 64.
Idem, Dutch still-life painting in the seventeenth century, London, 1956, pp. 24, 297, no. 64.
E. Greindl, Les peintres Flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siécle, Brussels, 1956, p. 14.
R. van Luttervelt in exhibition catalogue Natures mortes Hollandaises 1550-1950, Luxembourg, Musée Pescatore and Liège, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Liége, 1957, p. 32.
E. Greindl, Les peintres Flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siécle, Sterrebeek, 1983, pp. 8-9.
S. Segal, 'Früchte, Brot, Wein und tiefere Bedeutung - Ein Früchtestilleben von Jacques de Gheyn und seine Symbolik', Kunst & Antiquitäten, 11 (1986), pp. 24, 29, note 13.
F.G. Meyer in Simiolus, 20, p. 93, no. 1.
J. Bruyn, 'Dutch cheese: a problem of interpretation', in Simiolus, pp. 204-6, no. 2/3, note 20.
Idem, Dutch still-life painting in the seventeenth century, London, 1956, pp. 24, 297, no. 64.
E. Greindl, Les peintres Flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siécle, Brussels, 1956, p. 14.
R. van Luttervelt in exhibition catalogue Natures mortes Hollandaises 1550-1950, Luxembourg, Musée Pescatore and Liège, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Liége, 1957, p. 32.
E. Greindl, Les peintres Flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siécle, Sterrebeek, 1983, pp. 8-9.
S. Segal, 'Früchte, Brot, Wein und tiefere Bedeutung - Ein Früchtestilleben von Jacques de Gheyn und seine Symbolik', Kunst & Antiquitäten, 11 (1986), pp. 24, 29, note 13.
F.G. Meyer in Simiolus, 20, p. 93, no. 1.
J. Bruyn, 'Dutch cheese: a problem of interpretation', in Simiolus, pp. 204-6, no. 2/3, note 20.
Exhibited
Vienna, Palais Pallavicini, 16 March-15 April 1935, Die jüngeren Brueghel und ihr Kreis, no. 48, as 'Pieter Breughel The Elder (?)', illustrated.
Delft, Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum and Forth Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life In The Netherlands 1600-1700, The Hague, 1988, pp. 39, 50 and 227, no. 1, illustrated.
Delft, Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum and Forth Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life In The Netherlands 1600-1700, The Hague, 1988, pp. 39, 50 and 227, no. 1, illustrated.
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