JOHANNES KUVEENIS (I) | Still life with various fish, a shell, an earthenware jug, and other objects, all on a wooden table

Murray Backer, Amsterdam, by 1913 and until at least 1950;

Private collection, England;

With Alfred Brod, London, by 1962;

Carl Schünemann, Bremen, by 1979, from whom acquired.

U. Thieme and F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. VIII, Leipzig 1913, p. 221;

W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Maler und Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1979, vol. I, cat. no. 301, reproduced;

N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message, Nuremberg 1980, vol. II, p. 48, cat. no. 222, reproduced;

S.A. Sullivan, The Dutch Gamepiece, Montclair 1984, p. 99;

E. Gemar-Költzsch et al, Holländische Stillebenmaler im 17. Jahrhundert, Lingen 1995, vol. II, pp. 573-74, cat. no. 205/2, reproduced;

L.M. Helmus (ed.), Fish Still Lifes by Dutch and Flemish Masters 1550–1700, Utrecht 2004, p. 413, reproduced;

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 5, Stilleben und Tierstücke, Münster/Hamburg/London 2004, pp. 154-57, cat. no. 31, reproduced in colour;

W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M.J. Bok et al, At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 68, cat. no. 48, reproduced in colour.

A specialist in still lifes of game, fish, and fruit, Johannes Kuveenis (also known as Cuvenis) was active throughout much of his career in the Hague, where he became a member of the artist's guild in 1650. A number of Kuveenis' paintings were auctioned in the Hague in 1647, the same year that the present work was painted.