Live Auction 7888Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolours (Day Sale)
Attributed to Sébastien Bonnecroy (fl. Antwerp 1662-1663)
Lot 145 PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR 

Attributed to Sébastien Bonnecroy (fl. Antwerp 1662-1663)

Vanitas: A skull, a violin, an upturned tazza, books, tarot cards, a fob watch, a clay pipe, a taper, and a pouch of tobacco on a pewter plate, on a wooden table draped with a rug

Closed8 December 2010

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GBP 37,250

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Attributed to Sébastien Bonnecroy (fl. Antwerp 1662-1663)
Vanitas: A skull, a violin, an upturned tazza, books, tarot cards, a fob watch, a clay pipe, a taper, and a pouch of tobacco on a pewter plate, on a wooden table draped with a rug
oil on canvas
33 x 29½ in. (83.7 x 75 cm.)

Robert C. Graham, and by descent to
Edith A. Graham; Christie's, New York, 18 May 1995, lot 45, when acquired by the present owner ($11,500).

Specialist note

For the attribution, see for instance, the signed and dated painting in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg (M. Faré, Le Grand Siècle de la Nature Morte en France: le XVIIe Siècle, 1974, pp. 156-7, illustrated; and J. de Maere and M. Wabbles, Illustrated Dictionary of the 17th Century Flemish Painters, 1994, p. 64, fig. 125). The artist was probably a Frecnh protestant and is recorded working in the Hague from 1650-1676. He was in Antwerp in 1657 and became a member of the Guild of Saint Luke in 1662/3.