Lot 44: EDWAERT COLLIER

BREDA 1642 - 1708 LONDON(?) A VANITAS STILL LIFE WITH A CANDLESTICK, A SKULL, A SHELL, BUBBLES, A WATCH, A PORTRAIT OF CHARLES I, AND OTHER OBJECTS ON A DRAPED TABLE signed and dated on the book: E. Collier fecit London 1698 and inscribed on a piece of paper lower right: NEMO ANTE/MORTEM/BEATUS DICI/POTEST ("No one can be called happy before his death") oil on canvas 30 by 25 in.; 76.2 by 63.5 cm.

With J. Kugel, Paris, 1998; With Kunstkammer Georg Laue, Munich, 2002; Stephan Hiller.