Attributed to Pieter van Boucle Antwerp (?) circa 1610 - 1673 Paris

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Description

Pieter van Boucle
a still life with a carp, red onions, a knife, a wicker-bottle and a paper pouch with tobacco, all on a wooden ledge
oil on canvas, in a carved frame

Provenance

Dr H.P. Bremmer, The Hague (1871-1956), before 1938;
Thence by descent.

Exhibited

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Meesterwerken uit vier eeuwen 1400-1800, 25 June - 15 October 1938, cat. no. 38a (as Luis Meléndez; according to a label on the reverse, not mentioned in the catalogue).

Catalogue Note

This composition can be closely compared to that of a larger work by Van Boucle, signed and dated 1651, showing a Still life with a carp, a wicker-bottle, onions and a basket with mussels, which was recorded with Manteau, Paris in 1954.