Lot 31: A 'roemer' with white wine, a silver 'tazza', a plate with peaches, a chinese porcelain bowl with olives and a plate with salmon, all on a stone ledge

Adriaen Jansz. Kraen (Haarlem 1619-1679)
A 'roemer' with white wine, a silver 'tazza', a plate with peaches, a chinese porcelain bowl with olives and a plate with salmon, all on a stone ledge
oil on panel
58.8 x 83.5 cm.

Gaunø, Stilleben pa Gaunø, 1964, no. 21, as J. de Claeuw, illustrated.

J. Lange, Baroniet Gaunø's malerisamling, Naestved, 1876, no. 59, as Boolema.
K. Madsen, Fortegnelse over to Hundrede af Baroniet Gaunoes Malerier af aeldre Malere samt over dets Portraetsamling, Copenhagen, 1914, no. 21.
P. Gammelco, Dutch still-life painting from the 16th to the 18th centuries in Danish collections, Amsterdam, 1960, no. 60, as J. de Claeuw.
N.R.A. Vroom, A modest message, Schiedam, 1980, I, p. 132, fig. 176, II, p. 41, no. 178, as J. de Claeuw.

Baron Axel Reedz-Thrott, Gaunø; Christie's, London, 9 July 1976, lot 113, as J. de Claeuw.
Anonymous sale, Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 12 November 1977, lot 13, as J. de Claeuw.
In the possession of the current owner since 1990.

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Not much is known about Adriaen Kraen. He is first recorded in Haarlem in 1637 and a year later he is mentioned as a pupil of Jacob de Wet I whose sister he married. By 1642 he was one of the masters of the Haarlem guild. Only a few signed and even fewer dated pictures from his hand are known, one being a picture which was with Douwes, Amsterdam, in 1977, dated 1642. Many of Kraen's pictures have been attributed in the past to his Haarlem colleagues Pieter Claesz. and Willem Claesz. Heda and the works of these painters have many characteristics in common. All three artists obviously specialized in the so-called monochrome banketjes, of which the present picture is a good example. A picture with a similar composition was sold in these rooms, 11 May 1994, lot 26 (fig. 1).