Lot 37: Attributed to Balthasar van der Ast (Middelburg ?1593-1657 Delft)

Attributed to Balthasar van der Ast (Middelburg ?1593-1657 Delft)
Fruit in a wan-li kraak with shells and other fruit on a table
with signature and date 'J. De. Heem f. 1624' (below the shell, center right)
oil on canvas
16½ x 24¾ in. (41.9 x 62.9 cm.)

Leipzig, Alte Meister aus Sachischem Privatbesitz, 1889, no. 103, as 'J.Dz. de Heem'.
Utrecht, Tentoonstelling van Oude Meesters, 1894, no. 1, as 'B. van der Ast'.

A. Bredius, 'Die Ausstellung alter Gemälde aus schischem Privatbesitz in Leipzig', Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, N.F., I , 1890, p. 13, as 'not de Heem'.
C. Hofstede de Groot, 'De wetenschappelijke resultaten van de Tentoonstelling van Oude Kunst te Utrecht in 1894 gehouden', Oud Holland, XIII, 1895, pp. 34-35.
I. Bergstörm, Studier i Holländskt Stillebenmaleri under 1600-talet, Göteborg, 1947, fig. 164, as 'J.Dz. de Heem' (incorrectly labeled as from the Braams collection, Arnhem).
I. Bergstörm, Dutch Still-Life Painting in the Seventeenth Century, London, 1956, pp. 192-193, fig. 164, as 'J.Dz. de Heem' (incorrectly labeled as from the Braams collection, Arnhem).
I. Bergstörm, 'De Heem's Painting of his First Dutch Period', Oud Holland, LXXI, 1956, p. 173, as 'J.Dz. de Heem' (incorrectly as from the Braams collection, Arnhem).
F.G. Meijer, 'Jan Davidsz. De Heems Earliest Paintings', Hoogsteder-Naumann Mercury, VII, 1988, p. 36, note 3, as 'incorrectly attributed to de Heem'.
S. Segal, Jan Davidsz. De Heem en zijn kring, s'Gravenhage, 1991, pp. 19-21, fig. 2, as 'a copy after B. van der Ast'.

Dr. M. Schubart, Munich, by 1889; (+) sale, Galerie Hugo Helbing, Munich, 23 October 1899, lot 29, as 'J.Dz. de Heem'.

The Property of a New York Family