Lot 62: Jacob Foppens van Es (Antwerp c. 1596-1666)

Grapes, an apple and pears with a beetle in a pewter bowl on a ledge with rosebuds
oil on copper
14 5/8 x 19 1/2 in. (37.1 x 49.5 cm.)

Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 January 1994, lot 101, where purchased by the present owner.

The attribution was first proposed by Fred Meijer of the RKD, on the basis of photographs, when the picture appeared on the art market in New York in 1994 with a false De Heem signature (since removed). He has now examined the picture in the original and we are grateful to him for re-confirming the attribution. He considers it an early work by the artist.

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