Lot 69: PIETER VAN BOUCLE ANTWERP (?) CIRCA 1610 - 1673 PARIS

PROPERTY FROM A DECEASED'S ESTATE

A STILL LIFE WITH APRICOTS, PLUMS, FIGS, PEACHES AND GRAPES IN A BASKET ON A STONE LEDGE, TOGETHER WITH PEARS, SQUASH AND ASPARAGUS

measurements note
67.4 by 86.3 cm.; 26 1/2 by 34 in.

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Private Collection;
Alois Miedl, Amsterdam, trading as J. Goudstikker, acquired from the above;
Heinrich Hofmann, Munich, acquired from the above;
Linz Museum;
Stichting Nederlandsch Kunstbezit;
Returned to the heirs of the pre-war owners, 2005.

NOTE

Flemish by birth, Pieter van Boucle spent most of his working life in France where he worked with fellow still-life painter Lubin Baugin and also in the studio of Simon Vouet. His work combines the still life traditions of his native Flanders, in particular the work of Snyders, with those of his contemporaries in Paris, such as Louis Moillon; compare, for example, the arrangement and treatment of fruit with Snyders' work formerly with a German art dealer (H. Robels, Frans Snyders, p. 228, cat. no. 69, reproduced).