Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff
G. van Deynum
Still life of peaches, plums and a bunch of white grapes in a Wan-Li porcelain bowl resting on a wooden box, a sliced herring in a pewter dish with shrimps and a plum, a bread roll, two onions, a glass and other fruit on a table draped with a green tablecloth
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Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff
G. van Deynum
fl. Antwerp 1654
Still life of peaches, plums and a bunch of white grapes in a Wan-Li porcelain bowl resting on a wooden box, a sliced herring in a pewter dish with shrimps and a plum, a bread roll, two onions, a glass and other fruit on a table draped with a green tablecloth
signed and dated lower right on the table: J. Van Deÿnum Anno 1654
oil on canvas
unframed: 39.6 x 51.6 cm.; 15⅝ x 20⅜ in.
framed: 57.9 x 69 cm.; 22¾ x 27⅛ in.
Anonymous sale, London, Christies, 12 July 1985, lot 138 (as Gerardt van Duynen);
Subsequently acquired by Dr Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005);
Thence by inheritance.
Vic sur Seille, Musée départemental Georges de la Tour, Un cabinet imaginaire, natures mortes et vanités du XVIIème siècle, 10 May – 4 September 2005;
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, on loan, 1986 – March 2025.
A. Zirker, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers, Gemalde vom XV. Bis XVIII. Jahrhundert, E. Mai (ed.), Cologne 1993, pp. 105–107, no. 41, reproduced in colour (as Gerard Van Deynum);
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. 73;
G. Diss and L. Turnherr, Un cabinet imaginaire, natures mortes et vanités du XVIIème siècle, exh. cat., Vic sur Seille 2005, pp. 16–17, reproduced in colour (as Gerard Van Deynum);
F.G. Meijer, Jan Davidsz. De Heem 1606–1684, PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 2016, p. 167, fig. A 52, reproduced in colour;
F.G. Meijer, Jan Davidsz. De Heem 1606–1684, Zwolle 2024, vol. I, p. 228, fig. 272, reproduced in colour, vol. II, p. 593, under no. 137 (as current whereabouts unknown).
This painting by the little known artist G. van Deynum replicates the right portion of a composition by Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606–84) in the Liechtenstein Princely Collections, Vaduz-Vienna.1 Known only through his signature, it is thought he worked in De Heem's immediate vicinity, if not in his studio, at some point during the first half of the 1650s.
1 Inv. no. GE 777; oil on canvas, 46 x 65 cm.; https://www.liechtensteincollections.at/en/collections-online/fruit-still-life-with-herring-and-crab
