Lot 48: JAN OLIS

JAN OLIS GORINCHEM 1610 - 1676 HEUSDEN A KITCHEN STILL LIFE OF A HARE, A MALLARD, ARTICHOKES, CABBAGE, PEARS, A FISH ON AN EARTHENWARE PLATTER, AND POTS AND PANS signed with monogram centre left: Io (in compendium) fe oil on panel, oval 27.9 by 33.7 cm.

London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition of Works of the Old Masters, 1873, no. 98, as by Isaac van Ostade (lent by Sir Henry Thompson).

Sir Henry Thompson, 1873;
Frank Ward, no. 4;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 17 December 1999, lot 138.

Still lifes such as this painting are rare in Olis' oeuvre. Another kitchen interior, with two figures, is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. no. A296), and a breakfast still life is in the collection of Count Jean de Bousies, Brussels (see I. Bergström, 'Jan Olis as a Still Life Painter', in Oud Holland, 66, no. 1, 1951, p. 57, fig. 1).