Lot 40: WILLEM BARTSIUS

WILLEM BARTSIUS ENKHUIZEN CIRCA 1612 - AFTER 1657 JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES oil on panel 24 x 31 1/2 inches 23 3/4 by 31 1/2 in.; 60.3 by 80 cm.

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. 10 (as by Gerard Dou);
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. 11, reproduced (as by Leonard Bramer).

Portraits of Objects, Oscar and Maria Salzer Collection of Still Life and Trompe-L'Oeil Paintings, Fresno 1984, cat. no. 6, reproduced (as by Leonard Bramer).

Oscar and Maria Salzer, Los Angeles;
By whom given to the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science,1983 (FMM 82.17).

We are grateful to Peter Sutton for suggesting the attribution to Bartsius, based on firsthand inspection.