Live Auction 11670The Collection of a Distinguished Swiss Gentleman
Circle of Cornelis de Heem (Leiden 1631-1695 Antwerp)
Lot 98

Circle of Cornelis de Heem (Leiden 1631-1695 Antwerp)

Grapes, oysters, a partially peeled lemon, peaches, and other fruit, with a façon de Venise glass of wine and another glass on a stone ledge

Closed8 July 2015

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Circle of Cornelis de Heem (Leiden 1631-1695 Antwerp)
Grapes, oysters, a partially peeled lemon, peaches, and other fruit, with a façon de Venise glass of wine and another glass on a stone ledge
with signature 'DE HEEM f' (centre, on the ledge)
oil on canvas
18 ¼ x 16 ½ in. (45.8 x 41.6 cm.)

William Naylor, Clifton Hill, London; Christie's, London, 18 February 1886, lot 35 (8.5 gns. to Zellek[?]).
Theodor Fischer, Lucerne, 1954, from whom acquired as 'Jan Davidsz. de Heem' in July 1954 by the grandfather of the present owner.

Specialist note

Fred Meijer of the RKD, The Hague, to whom we are grateful, has proposed a tentative attribution to Henricus van Weerts (active c. 1650-1699), on the basis of photographs. He points out, furthermore, that the central oyster and some of the foliage and an apricot occur almost identically, also in terms of execution, but shifted in place, in a signed painting in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford (inv. A 618).