* Pieter Claesz. Burgsteinfurt circa 1579- Haarlem 1660

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Description

Pieter Claesz.
Still Life of a Crab on a Pewter Plate, a Salt-Cellar, a Roemer, a Knife, a Lemon and Two Oysters on a Pewter Plate, All Resting on a Draped Table
oil on panel

Provenance

Otto Ekenberg, inherited from his father who purchased the painting in 1918;
By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, March 24, 1971, lot 7;
There purchased by the present collector.

Literature

Art at Auction, The Year at Sotheby's & Parke-Bernet, 1970-71, reproduced on the cover as part of a group photograph.

Catalogue Note

We are grateful to Fred Meijer of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, for confirming the attribution to Pieter Claesz. He has proposed a date of circa 1645.

At the time of the 1971 sale (see Provenance below), the present painting was sold together with a pendant (sold separately as lot 6), Still Life with a Half-peeled Lemon, an Overturned Beaker on a Pewter Dish, A Roemer, a Knife and Two Bread Rolls on a Table, signed in monogram and dated 164(8?). The paintings were sold with a copy of a certificate from Dr. Ingvar Bergström dated 1970.

N.R.A. Vroom dates the pendant of the present painting as 1645 (see A Modest Message, 1980, vol. 2, p. 31, no. 124, reproduced).