Pieter Claesz. (Burgsteinfurt 1597-1660 Haarlem)
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Pieter Claesz. (Burgsteinfurt 1597-1660 Haarlem)

A giant roemer, an upturned roemer, grapes on the vine, a roll of bread, a knife and a partly-peeled lemon on a platter on a draped table

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Pieter Claesz. (Burgsteinfurt 1597-1660 Haarlem)
A giant roemer, an upturned roemer, grapes on the vine, a roll of bread, a knife and a partly-peeled lemon on a platter on a draped table
signed with monogram and dated 'PC/1646' (strengthened (?), centre left)
oil on panel
23 1/8 x 21¾ in. (58.7 x 55.2 cm.)
Provenance
Waagepetersen collection, Copenhagen.
Karl Madsen, Director of the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen; sale, V. Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, 28 September 1938, lot 24, 'The picture is well preserved and is one of the artist's best productions' (4,500 crowns to Hagemann).
Hofjagermeister G.A. Hagemann, Bjersjölm, and by descent to the present owner.
Literature
P. Gammelbo, Dutch Still Life Paintings from the 16th to the 18th Century in Danish Collections, Copenhagen, 1960, p. 44, no. 46.
Exhibited
Copenhagen, Fine Arts Club, 1891, no. 32.
Luund, Skanska Kunstmuseum, Gamla Holländere; Skânska Hem, 1953, no. 12.
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Lot Essay

Last published by Gammelbo in 1960 (loc. cit.), the present work joins six other pictures from 1646 (all on a horizontal format) listed by Vroom (N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message..., Schiedam, 1980, p. 32, nos. 127-132). In a letter of 6 August 1995 to the present owner, Dr. Martina Brunner-Bulst deemed the present picture one of the most beautiful works from the mature period ('sicher zu den schönsten Werken des Malers aus seiner reifen Schaffensphase gehört'), an observation that she has recently confirmed on the basis of a transparency. The picture will be included in her forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's oeuvre due for publication towards the end of this year.

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