A Private European Residence: French and Neoclassical Furniture and Paintings & Works on Paper

/

Lot 252
  • 252

Cornelis Mahu Antwerp 1613 - 1689

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
Log in to view results
bidding is closed

Description

  • Cornelis Mahu
  • A still life with a Roemer, a wine glass, an ice bucket, three pewter dishes and other objects, all arranged on a partly draped table
  • bears signature on a rolled up piece of paper on the table: HeDA
  • oil on panel

Provenance

Probably with Richard Green, London;
Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 30 March 2000, lot 205.

Literature

Probably N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message, vol.II, Schiedam 1980, p.71, no.357c, as 'Probably made by Gerret Heda'.

Catalogue Note

The composition derives from an original of 1637 by Willem Claesz. Heda now in the Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp (see Vroom, under Literature, vol.I, p.73, fig. 90).  Many variants and copies are known, variously attributed to Gerrit Willemsz. Heda or Cornelis Mahu.  A signed version by Gerrit Willemsz. was offered London, Sotheby's, 8 December 1993, lot 286.

On the basis of photographs Fred G. Meijer believes this painting to be a characteristic work of Cornelis Mahu.