Lot 66
  • 66

Circle of Jacob de Witte

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Circle of Jacob de Witte
  • Putti with a Goat; Putti at Play: A Pair of Trompe l'Oeil terracotta bas reliefs
  • a pair, both oil on canvas
  • each: 10 7/8 by 17 3/8 in.; 27.6 by 44.1 cm.
  • 27.3 by 43.8 cm.

Provenance

Oscar and Maria Salzer, Los Angeles;
By whom given to the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science, 1983 (acc. nos. FMM 82.57 & FMM 82.58).

Exhibited

Los Angeles, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California; Seattle, WA, Seattle Art Museum; Honolulu, HI, Honolulu Academy of Art; Santa Barbara, CA, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Reality and Deception, 16 October 1974 - 20 April 1975, cat. nos. 75 & 76, reproduced (as Dutch, 17th Century).

Literature

Portraits of Objects, Oscar and Maria Salzer Collection of Still Life and Trompe-L'Oeil Paintings, Fresno 1984, cat. nos. 46 & 47, no. 47 reproduced (as Dutch, 17th Century).

Condition

Each: canvas is lined. Cracquelure througout. Mounted to piece of sood. Tape visible at edges. Pressed surface. Under UV: in-paint in each, mostly in darker areas, approx. 5% of surface in each.
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