Lot 150: Pieter van Roestraten (Haarlem 1629-1700 London)

Pieter van Roestraten (Haarlem 1629-1700 London)
Violin, a skull draped with laurel branches, a silver ginger jar, a recorder, a letter with a red seal, a silver gilt hardstone cup and a silver dish on a marble ledge
oil on canvas
25 x 29½ in. (63.5 x 75 cm.)

Christie's, New York, 31 May 1990, lot 10, when acquired by the present owner ($28,000).

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
This elegant still life was painted by the Haarlem born artist Pieter Gerritsz. van Roestraten. The son-in-law of Frans Hals, his early work consisted mainly of genre scenes of peasant life, but he soon turned to still life, often with the accoutrements of the Vanitas: candlesticks, skulls, clocks and musical instruments: all reminding us of the transitory nature of our existence.