Lemons, peaches, prawns and grapes with a Magpie butterfly, caterpillars and other insects and a roemer on a box with a Red Admiral butterfly and a damson fly on a partly-draped table

Details

Circle of Jan Davidsz. de Heem (Utrecht 1606-1683/4 Antwerp)
Lemons, peaches, prawns and grapes with a Magpie butterfly, caterpillars and other insects and a roemer on a box with a Red Admiral butterfly and a damson fly on a partly-draped table
oil on canvas
20 3/8 x 16½ in. (51.7 x 41.9 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 24 April 1981, lot 103, as J. van Son.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This is a copy of a detail from a painting of circa 1645 by Jan Davidsz. de Heem in the Swedish Royal Collection. There are many versions of this successful composition, for example that excecuted by Jan van Kessel in 1654.

We are grateful to Mr. Fred Meijer of the RKD for proposing the attribution and for his help in cataloguing this lot.

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