Lot 19: THE PROPERTY OF A GERMAN FAMILY PIETER CLAESZ. BURGSTEINFURT CIRCA 1579 - 1660 HAARLEM A STILL

THE PROPERTY OF A GERMAN FAMILY PIETER CLAESZ. BURGSTEINFURT CIRCA 1579 - 1660 HAARLEM A STILL LIFE WITH A LARGE ROEMER, A KNIFE RESTING ON A SILVER PLATE BEARING A PARTLY-PEELED LEMON, WALNUTS AND HAZELNUTS, ON A MARBLE LEDGE

signed lower centre on the blade of the knife: Pc (in compendium)

oil on oak panel

PROVENANCE

Bought by the great-grandparents of the present owners.
CATALOGUE NOTE

This hitherto unrecorded picture dates from Claesz.'s early maturity. Similar still lifes of upright format, with a large Roemer set to one side, as well as those with a partly-peeled lemon on a silver plate on the rim of which rests a knife, are characteristic of Pieter Claesz.'s work from the end of the 1620s and the early to mid-1630s, although Dr. Martina Brunner-Bulst, to whom we are grateful, dates it more precisely to circa 1634-6, on the basis of a transparency.

45.6 by 36.7 cm.; 18 by 14 1/2 in.