Isack Blau (active circa 1667)

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Isack Blau (active circa 1667)

A group portrait of a family: the wife, seated three quarter length, with her child on her lap, the husband, standing, holding a basket with dead game, by a table laden with a lobster, dead rabbits, a duck, a turkey and copper pans, a basket with vegetables and poultry below

oil on panel
105.5 x 155.8 cm

Lot Essay

The attribution has been suggested by Willem van de Watering; he compares the present lot to the painting signed J. Blouw, coll. Municipality of Capelle aan de IJssel. No facts about this artist are known. Van de Watering believes that he is identical with Isack Blau, who was mentioned as an artist, aged 38, by an Amsterdam notary on 20 December 1667

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