Studio of Floris van Schooten (c. 1585-after 1655 Haarlem)
Studio of Floris van Schooten (c. 1585-after 1655 Haarlem)

A breakfast piece with cheese, bread, fruit and a roemer, on a partially draped table

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Studio of Floris van Schooten (c. 1585-after 1655 Haarlem)
A breakfast piece with cheese, bread, fruit and a roemer, on a partially draped table
oil on panel
21 ½ x 35 ¾ in. (54 x 90.8 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby Mak van Waay, 23 June 1953, lot 96, as 'F. van Schooten' (Dfl 4.500), where acquired by the parents of the present owner.
Literature
P. Gammelbo, Dutch Still-Life Painting from the 16th to the 18th Centuries in Danish Collections, Copenhagen, Leigh-on-Sea and Amsterdam, 1960, no. 63.
P. Gammelbo: ‘Floris Gerritsz. van Schooten’, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, XVII, 1966, pp. 127-8, no. 63, fig. 21, as 'Floris van Schooten'.
N. R. A. Vroom, A modest message as intimated by the painters of the monochrome banketje, Schiedam, 1980, II, no. 576, as 'Floris van Schooten'.

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Dr. Fred G. Meijer for confirming the attribution after inspection of the original.

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