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Pieter van Boucle Antwerp (?) circa 1610 - 1673 Paris
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Description
- Pieter van Boucle
- Still life of peaches, plums, grapes and pears in a basket, together with a parrot and a squirrel, all resting on a ledge draped with a carpet
- oil on canvas
Provenance
On the art market in Paris, 1997.
Literature
C. Salvi, D'après nature. La nature morte en France au XVIIe siècle, Tournai 2000, reproduced in colour on p. 67.
Catalogue Note
Having trained with Frans Snyders in Antwerp, Pieter van Boucle settled in Paris where he established his reputation as a gifted still-life painter. In this painting he combines a still life of fruit in a basket, which draws inspiration from his northern counterparts Snyders and Adrian van Utrecht, whilst the carpet is a motif more typical of his French contemporary Jacques Hupin.
The attribution has been endorsed by M. Fabrice Faré.