Lot 12: Willem Claesz. Heda (Haarlem 1594-1680)

Willem Claesz. Heda (Haarlem 1594-1680) A leg of ham, a partly-peeled lemon and slices of bread on pewter platters, a berkemeier, an upturned tankard, a silver-gilt cup and cover, and other vessels on a partially draped table signed and dated '·HEDA· 1655·' (lower centre) oil on canvas 32¾ x 39 5/8 in. (83.2 x 100.6 cm.)

Amsterdam, Maatschappij voor Beeldende Kunsten, La collection Goudstikker d'Amsterdam, 14 December 1919-4 January 1920, no. 31. Amsterdam, Kunsthandel Goudstikker, Het Stilleven, 18 February-26 March 1933, no. 132 as lent from a private Dutch collection. Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, Nederlandse Stillevens uit vier eeuwen, 17 July-31 August 1954, no. 53.

N.R.A. Vroom, De schilders van het monochrome banketje, Amsterdam, 1945, no. 207a, p. 213, as dated '1655 ?'. M.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message, as intimated by the painters of the 'monochrome banketje', Schiedam, 1980, no. 379a, as dated '1654'. P. Mould, Sleepers: In Search of Lost Old Masters, London, 1995, pp. 46-50, figs. 11-12.

with Goudstikker, by 1919. with G. Arnot, London, 1926. Private collection, The Netherlands, by 1933. Ir. C.Th.F. Thurkow, The Hague, by 1941. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 30 October 1979, lot 47. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 29 April 1985, lot 104, still with a landscape background from the late 17th century.