Live Auction 22319Remastered: Old Masters from the Collection of J.E. Safra - Selling Without Reserve
JEAN-BAPTISTE VAN MOERKERCKE (COURTRAI ?-1689 ROME)
Lot 11

JEAN-BAPTISTE VAN MOERKERCKE (COURTRAI ?-1689 ROME)

A still life with musical instruments

Closed24 May 2023

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USD 10,080

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JEAN-BAPTISTE VAN MOERKERCKE (COURTRAI ?-1689 ROME)
A still life with musical instruments
signed 'JB. Moerkercke pinxit' ('JB' linked, lower center)
oil on canvas
32 x 41 1/8 in. (81.2 x 104.5 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 18 June 1992, lot 44, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

The musical score has been tentatively identified as Italian composer Francesco Colombini's Nectar caelicum sive cantiones sacrae, II, III, IV vocibus cum basso continuo, which was published in Antwerp in 1639.