Gaspar Peeter Verbruggen the Younger

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 25 March 1977, lot 93.

Oil on canvas, with a relatively new lining. The picture surface is in generally good condition. There is the stable web of craquelure, but the picture retains its original detail and, in places, impasto. The color remains bright and fresh. Under UV light, very little retouching visible. There are scattered small retouched, mainly to address darker pigments and shadows. There is a three-quarter inch line of horizontal retouching at center left edge; a 1 inch by half inch area in the left part of the melon in the lower right quadrant; and an approximately 2 inch line below the center of the urn on the stone ledge. In an elaborately carved and gilt gold frame.
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We are grateful to Fred G. Meijer of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs.