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Lot Essay
Born in Cologne, the son of Jacques Binoit from Tournai, the artist was apprenticed to Daniel Soreau in Hanau sometime after 1600. He trained there alongside Sebastian Stoskopff and his master's twin sons, Peter and Isaac Soreau. He worked in Frankfurt around 1620 returning to Hanau in 1627, the year of his marriage to Daniel Soreau's niece, where he remained until his death.
Gerhard Bott lists three other variants of this picture all of which conform to the basic compositional structure with a bird coming through a window towards a bowl of grapes on a table, but contain significant differences in the detail (all private collections; see op. cit., pp. 204-205, nos. WV.B.27-29). None of the others include the tazza of peaches but elements such as the sliced melon, the sprigs of flowers on the table and the positioning of the vine branches do recur in differing combinations. Two of the other variants are dated 1618 and 1619 respectively, indicating that all were conceived at around the same time when the artist was active in Hanau.
Gerhard Bott lists three other variants of this picture all of which conform to the basic compositional structure with a bird coming through a window towards a bowl of grapes on a table, but contain significant differences in the detail (all private collections; see op. cit., pp. 204-205, nos. WV.B.27-29). None of the others include the tazza of peaches but elements such as the sliced melon, the sprigs of flowers on the table and the positioning of the vine branches do recur in differing combinations. Two of the other variants are dated 1618 and 1619 respectively, indicating that all were conceived at around the same time when the artist was active in Hanau.