Lot 45: Petrus Schotanus (Dronrijp 1601-circa 1675 Leeuwarden)

Petrus Schotanus (Dronrijp 1601-circa 1675 Leeuwarden)
A vanitas still life with books, documents, dead snipe, a celestial globe, an hour-glass, a candlestick, flags and a trumpet with roses on a table
signed 'PSchotanus' (on ledge, lower centre) and 'PScho**' (on letter, lower centre)
oil on panel
59.7 x 84.2cm (23 1/2 x 33 1/8in).

Footnotes

• Provenance
  Sale, Diederiks, The Hague, October 1980, lot 219
  Sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, 17 November 1994, lot 163
  
  Two other versions of the present lot, with minor differences, are known, one sold at Sotheby's London, 12 November 1969, lot 215 and the other sold at Sotheby's London, 13 April 1983, lot 109.