Lot 199: ALBRECHT KAUW STRASBOURG 1616 - 1681 BERNE

A STILL LIFE WITH DEAD GAME, A WHITE PORCELAIN BOWL FILLED WITH GRAPES AND PEACHES, A PLATTER OF LOBSTERS ON A TERRACOTTA URN AND A SMILING MAN BEHIND

measurements note
109.7 by 138.5 cm.; 43 1/4 by 54 1/2 in.

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Anonymous sale, Monaco, Sotheby's, 17-18 June 1988, lot 820 (as School of Strasbourg, 17th Century).

LITERATURE

G. Herzog, Albrecht Kauw, Bern 1999, p. 350, cat. no. N3 (where dated to 1650/1660).

NOTE

The present work formerly formed part of a pair which was split up at the 1988 sale (see Provenance). The pendant includes two figures and is likewise neither signed or dated.