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Circle of Pieter Claesz. (Westphalia c. 1597/8-1661 Haarlem)
Lot 161 PROPERTY FROM A SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTION (2, 137, 149, 157, 161 & 168)

Circle of Pieter Claesz. (Westphalia c. 1597/8-1661 Haarlem)

A ham on a pewter platter, a pealed lemon and a roll on pewter platters, a tankard, a roemer and a goblet, on a partly-draped table

Closed4 July 2012

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Circle of Pieter Claesz. (Westphalia c. 1597/8-1661 Haarlem)
A ham on a pewter platter, a pealed lemon and a roll on pewter platters, a tankard, a roemer and a goblet, on a partly-draped table
with monogram 'PC' (centre right, on the tankard)
oil on panel
21¾ x 33 3/8 in. (55.2 x 84.6 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Brussels, Fivez, 10 March 1927, lot 36, as 'W.C. Heda'. with Knoedler, New York, 1962, as 'P. Claesz'.
with Douwes, Amsterdam.
with Daniel Katz, Dieren.

Specialist note

This is a close variant, believed by Vroom to be autograph, of a still-life by Claesz. in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. The main differences being the lemon (lower left), which replaces a broken glass in the Munich painting, and the absence of broken walnuts on the table. We are grateful to Fred Meijer, of the RKD, The Hague, for suggesting a tentative attribution to Pieter van Berendrecht (Haarlem 1616-after 1662).