Lot 88: JAN JANSZ. TRECK AMSTERDAM 1605/6 - 1652

signed on the tazza centre right: JJ (in ligature) Treck

oil on panel

A STILL LIFE WITH A WAN-LI PORCELAIN BOWL WITH GRAPES ON A PEWTER PLATE, A SILVER TAZZA WITH PEACHES, TOGETHER WITH PLUMS AND NUTS, ALL ON A DRAPED TABLE

53.5 by 45 cm.

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

With Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1972;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie´s, 13 December 2000, lot 37.

Paintings by the Amsterdam still life painter Jan Jansz. Treck are rare; there are only about twenty signed works known, all datable to a six-year period between 1644 and 1651. Treck was a pupil of Jan Jansz. van den Uyl, his brother-in-law.

There are two similar compositions by the artist, the first, depicting a Still life with a pewter flagon, signed and dated 1649, is in the National Gallery, London (inv. no. 4562), and the second one, signed, showing a Still life with a silver tazza with grapes and a wan-li porcelain plate with peaches, formerly with Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam in 1992-3 (see N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message as intimated by the painters of the 'Monochrome Banketje', Schiedam 1980, vol. II, p. 127, no. 655, reproduced).