Lot 18: Jan Davidsz. de Heem (Utrecht 1606-1683/4 Antwerp)

Peaches, grapes and a partly-peeled lemon in a Wanli ' kraak ' porselein bowl, with a ham on a pewter platter, a silver-gilt cup and cover, a pewter flagon, and a roemer with a knife on a plate, on a partly-draped table signed 'J.D. Heem.f.' (lower left) oil on panel 261/2 x 40 in. (67 x 108 cm.) in an 18th Century carved and gilded frame NOTES We are grateful to Mr. Fred Meijer of the RKD for confirming the attribution after examining the picture in person. Previously thought to be lost, he has pointed out that this is the original treatment of a composition known in two copies: the first, measuring 78 x 108 cm., is recorded in the 1912 catalogue of the Mus‚e des Beaux-Arts, Lyons; the second, on canvas and measuring 88 x 121 cm., was listed by Vroom as by Cornelis Cruys (private collection, Italy, formerly with D. Katz, Dieren; N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message as intimated by the painters of the 'Monochrome Banketje', Schiedam, 1980, II, p. 47, no. 214).