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Jan Mortel Leiden 1652 - 1719
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 EUR
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Description
- Jan Mortel
- A stil life with a porcelain bowl with strawberries, a rose and a butterfly, a wineglass, grapes, prawns, gooseberries, all on a stone ledge
- bears a Cornelis de Heem- monogram lower right
oil on panel
Provenance
Stanley N. Barbee, Beverly Hills, California (according to a label on the reverse).
Anonymous sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, 20 April 1944, lot 12 (as Cornelis de Heem).
Bears a label on the reverse with inventory number 164
Catalogue Note
Jan Mortel spent his entire life in Leiden and was at least from 1690 onwards the official painter of the University's botanical garden.
Fred G. Meijer was the first to suggest an attribution to Jan Mortel in 1982. He recently kindly confirmed this on the basis of photographs.
Fred G. Meijer was the first to suggest an attribution to Jan Mortel in 1982. He recently kindly confirmed this on the basis of photographs.