Lot 18
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Gerard van Berleborch Active in Amsterdam before 1649 - in or after 1658

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Description

  • Gerard van Berleborch
  • a still life with a roemer and a peeled lemon, peaches, grapes, a watch, all on a wooden ledge
  • signed with monogram and dated on the wooden ledge lower centre: GVB (in ligature) 1650
  • oil on panel

Provenance

With Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, 1929;
Hans Skutezky, New York, before 1949;
His sale, New York, Parke Bernet, 8 December 1949, lot 26;
Robert Badenhop, New Jersey, by who given to The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio;
By whom sold, New York, Christie's, 5 November 1982, lot 163 (all the above as by Abraham van Beyeren);
With Klaus Edel, Cologne, by 1984, from whom bought by the present owner in 1992.

Literature

I. Bergström, 'Een kwartet van zeldzame stilleven-kunstenaars: Jakob Flegel, Thomas de Paep, G. van Berkborch en Georg Held', in: Tableau, no. 1, September 1984, pp. 44 and 47-49, reproduced p. 48, fig. 14:
A. van der Willigen & F.G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Painters Working in Oils 1525-1725, Leiden 2003, pp. 36-7.

Catalogue Note

There are only five dated paintings by the Amsterdam still life painter Van Berleborch known. Three of these, including the present work, are dated 1650, one is dated 1655 and the last dated still life is from 1658. The two other works from 1650 are a Still life with a bekerschroef and a silver tazza, recorded with Leger Galleries, London and a Still life with a roemer and oranges, which was sold Stockholm, Auktionsverk, 11 April 1984, lot 589. 

As described by Bergström (see Literature below) the intimate character of Van Berleborch's small oeuvre shows strong reminiscences of still lifes by other Amsterdam artists like Simon Luttichuys (1610-1661) and Paulus van den Bosch (c.1615-1658).