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* Johannes Fabritius Midden Beemster 1636-after 1693
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Description
- Johannes Fabritius
- Still LIfe of Fish, Eels and Fishing Nets
- signed at center Joanne Fabricius. pinxit
- oil on canvas
Provenance
J. B. Klaasen, Rotterdam;
Ponce Museum, Puerto Rico;
By whom sold ("The Property of an Institution"), New York, Christie's, May 18, 1994, lot 78.
Ponce Museum, Puerto Rico;
By whom sold ("The Property of an Institution"), New York, Christie's, May 18, 1994, lot 78.
Exhibited
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Vermeer, orsprong en invloed, July 9-October 10, 1935, no. 29, reproduced fig. 33.
Literature
I. Bergström, Dutch Still-Life Painting in the Seventeenth Century, New York 1956, pp. 239-40;
J. Held, R. Taylor, C. Carder, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Fundación Luis A. Ferré, Paintings and Sculpture of the European and American Schools, Puerto Rico 1984, p. 110, reproduced p. 111.
A. van der Willigen and F.G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-Life Painters Working in Oils, 1525-1725, Leiden 2003, p. 81;
F. G. Meijer, "Fish Still lifes in Holland and Flanders," and "Compendium of Fish Still-life Painters," in Fish Still lifes by Dutch and Flemish Masters 1550-1700, catalogue of the exhibition, Utrecht and Helsinki 2004, pp. 58-60 and 408, reproduced fig. 45.
J. Held, R. Taylor, C. Carder, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Fundación Luis A. Ferré, Paintings and Sculpture of the European and American Schools, Puerto Rico 1984, p. 110, reproduced p. 111.
A. van der Willigen and F.G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-Life Painters Working in Oils, 1525-1725, Leiden 2003, p. 81;
F. G. Meijer, "Fish Still lifes in Holland and Flanders," and "Compendium of Fish Still-life Painters," in Fish Still lifes by Dutch and Flemish Masters 1550-1700, catalogue of the exhibition, Utrecht and Helsinki 2004, pp. 58-60 and 408, reproduced fig. 45.
Catalogue Note
There is an unsigned pendant to the present painting depicting sea fish in the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.