CIRCLE OF JAN DAVIDSZ. DE HEEM | STILL LIFE WITH A ROEMER, A WINE GLASS, OYSTERS, AN ORANGE, A MELON, AND A ROLL, ALL ON A TABLE DRAPED IN A CLOTH

Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Lady"), London, Christie's, 15 April 1983, lot 70 (as Joris van Son);

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 15 January 1986, lot 151 (as Jan Davidsz de Heem, according to Bergström);

There acquired.

F. Meijer, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Ph.D dissertation, 2016, p. 247, reproduced fig. AU 34 (as Circle of J. Davidsz. de Heem, possibly E. Van den Broeck);

F. Meijer, Jan Davidsz. de Heem: Part 2 Catalogue Raisonné, Amsterdam 2016, p. 249, under cat. no. A222.

This striking still-life bears visual affinities to works by Jan Davidsz. de Heem, including one in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe [1] and one formerly with Richard Green [2].  The present example seems to relate to the mature still-lifes (circa 1670) of Elias van den Broeck, a Dutch Golden Age painter who was a pupil of both Jan Davidsz. de Heem in Utrecht and Cornelis Kick in Amsterdam. 

1. Inv. no. 363, oil on panel, 37 by 47.3 cm, signed upper center J.D. De Heem f. See Karlsruhe 1999, cat. no. 137, reproduced. 

2. Oil on panel, 34.5 by 44.5 cm., See Fred Meijer, op. cit., p. 253, cat. no. A226.