Auction 50 / Lot 15

Verso: Wooden panel with old coat of arms and seal. Expertise: Attached statement by Fred Meijer to the owner of the painting dated 26.02.2014. Provenance: Old German Westphalian aristocratic property. South German private collection. The still life offered here with glasses, pewter jug, bread, butter and apples belongs to the outstanding examples of Dutch still life painting of the mid-17th century. It is very close to works by the Haarlem painters Jan Janz van de Velde III and Willem Claesz. Heda. Fred Meijer remarks that the painting belongs qualitatively to the better works of still life painting of this type. Compositionally and stylistically, it combines influences from both the Haarlem and Amsterdam schools. While the composition seems to have been influenced by works by Willem Claesz. Heda, the table pulled far upwards and the tablecloth hanging far down are closer to the paintings of Jan Jansz. van de Velde III, the combination of cheese and apples shows a popular theme of Floris van Dijck. In the painterly conception, on the other hand, the influence of the Amsterdam painters Jan Jansz. den Uyl and Jan Jansz. Treck cannot be excluded.