Lot 84: Jasper Geeraerts (Antwerp circa 1620-before 1654 Amsterdam)

Lemons, oysters, grapes, a pomegranate on a silver plate with shells on a velvet box on a table draped with a green cloth
indistinctly signed (on table, lower left)
oil on panel
52 x 66 cm. (20 1/2 x 26 in.)

with Robert Flinck, Brussels, 1964

Jasper Geerarts, also known as Jasper Gerardi, typically painted such pronk still lifes on tables draped with coloured cloths in the style of the de Heems. He signed variously with his full name in lower case or capitals, sometimes with the monogram JG.

Dutch private collection, circa 1800, and thence by descent to the present owner