Lot 60: - Jan Davidsz. De Heem , Utrecht 1606 - 1683/4 Antwerp still life with a roemer, a peeled lemon, bread, an oyster and chestnuts on a pewter dish, grapes, a taper and an orange on a ledge partly draped with a white cloth oil on panel

oil on panel

measurements note 38 by 47 cm.; 15 by 18 1/2 in.

Possibly Pieter Oets, Amsterdam;
His sale et al., Amsterdam, Van der Schley, 31 January 1791, lot 27, 1.10 guilders to Fouquet;υ1
Anonymous sale, Berlin, Lepke, 1 April 1930, lot 52;
E. Gutzwiller, Paris;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 22 December 1937, lot 8 (as by Jan Davidsz. de Heem), 58 gns. to Asscher and Welker;
Anonymous sale, The Hague, Van Marle and Bignell, 19 March 1975, lot 86;
With J. Hoogsteder, The Hague, 1975;
Acquired by the present owner in 1987.

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
Although this panel was briefly associated with the work of Elias van den Broeck,υ2 it has more recently been rightfully restored by Fred G. Meijer to the oeuvre of Jan Davidsz. de Heem, to whom it had been attributed since the late eighteenth century. He considers this panel to be a mature work, dating from the mid-1660s, and will be including it in his forthcoming catalogue of the works of Jan Davidsz. de Heem. In panels such as this, De Heem shows to great effect his enormously influential integration of the colourful Flemish style with the more intimate scale and restrained mood of the northern Netherlands. At this date De Heem had probably left Antwerp for Utrecht, where he is documented in January 1665, but it is possible that he may have lived or maintained a workshop in the city in the early 1660s, as Houbraken records that Jacob Marrell left his pupil Abraham Mignon to study with him there. After the French invasion of the northern Netherlands De Heem returned to Antwerp in 1672, where he died twelve years later. 1. In the catalogue it is descibed as 'Op een Tafel staat een Tinne Schootel, waar op gebraden Castanjes, Oesters, Wittebrood, Citroen, Oranjeappelen, beneevens een Roemer Wyn, natuurlyk enkragtig deschilderd op paneel, door J.D. de Heem, h. 14, br. 17 dm'.
2. Certificate of Prof. Ingvar Bergstrom, dated 4 April 1986.