Lot Essay
The artist followed his father in specializing in colourful, small scale still lifes, usually painted on copper. He revitalizes his fathers idiom by transforming his still lifes in genre scenes.
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Cats chasing eel, octopus, crab falling from an upturned basket, with a crayfish, sturgeon and other fish on a table nearby, in a larder
Details
Jan van Kessel II (1654-1708)
Cats chasing eel, octopus, crab falling from an upturned basket, with a crayfish, sturgeon and other fish on a table nearby, in a larder
oil on copper
31.4 x 41.7 cm
Cats chasing eel, octopus, crab falling from an upturned basket, with a crayfish, sturgeon and other fish on a table nearby, in a larder
oil on copper
31.4 x 41.7 cm
Provenance
Anon. Sale, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, 23/25 March 1976, lot 450, ill.