Lot 45: JOANNES HERMANS CALLED MONSÙ AURORA

JOANNES HERMANS CALLED MONSÙ AURORA ANTWERP? CIRCA 1630 - AFTER 1665 ROME STILL LIFE OF GAME BIRDS RESTING ON A ROCK LEDGE oil on canvas 24 1/2 x 38 3/4 inches 24 1/2 by 38 3/4 in.; 62.2 by 98.4 cm.

Lawrence, KS, Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, The Salzer Collection, Trompe L'Oeil and Still Life Paintings, A Loan Exhibition, 4 October - 1 November 1964, cat. no. 4, reproduced (as by Peter Boel);
Charlotte, NC, The Mint Museum of Art, The Salzer Collection, Trompe-L'Oeil and Still Life Paintings, A Loan Exhibition, 14 February - 7 March 1965, cat. no. 4 (as by Peter Boel);
Los Angeles, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California; Seattle, WA, Seattle Art Museum; Honolulu, HI, Honolulu Academy of Art; Santa Barbara, CA, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Reality and Deception, 16 October 1974 – 20 April 1975, Cat. no. 9, reproduced (as by Peter Boel).

Portraits of Objects, Oscar and Maria Salzer Collection of Still Life and Trompe-L'Oeil Paintings, Fresno 1984, cat. no. 4, reproduced (as by Peter Boel).

Oscar and Maria Salzer, Los Angeles;
By whom given to the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science,1983 (FMM 82.15).

We are grateful to Fred Meijer of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague for identifying this painting to be a work by Hermans, on the basis of photographs.