Lot 58: Cornelis Kick , Amsterdam 1635 - 1681 Still life with peonies, roses, irises, poppies and a tulip with butterflies, a dragonfly and other insects on a ledge oil on oak panel

signed lower left C orn. Kick F oil on oak panel

measurements note 23 3/4 by 18 1/4 in.; 60 by 46.5 cm.

F.G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish still life painters working in oil, 1525 - 1725, Leiden 2003, p. 125.

With Newhouse Galleries, New York;
Anonymous sale ("Property of a Private Collector"), New York, Sotheby's, January 12, 1989, lot 195 (as by Jacob Walscapelle);
With Richard Green, London;
C. Cunningham, Boston;
Anonymous sale, Paris, Ader Tajan, June 22, 1990, lot 48, for 1,400,000 FF, where acquired by the present owner.

PROPERTY FROM A FRENCH PRIVATE COLLECTION
This painting was long considered to be by Jacob van Walscapelle, an attribution that was endorsed by Ingvar Bergstrom when it last appeared in these Rooms in 1989. It was only when the picture was cleaned, while with Richard Green, that Kick's signature appeared. Kick was trained by his father Simon Kick and he apparently painted at first genre scenes in the style of his father. He eventually turned to still life painting at which he excelled. Paintings by Kick are very rare and often mistaken, as in the present case, for paintings by his pupil Jacob Walscapelle. This beautifully preserved work on panel is among Kick's largest and most elaborate compositions. At the time the painting was sold at Tajan, Sam Segal had been consulted and suggested a date of execution of circa 1665-1667, which places it in the artist's maturity.