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Property from a Private Connecticut Collection

JOHANNES BOUMAN | STILL LIFE OF FRUIT IN A KRAAK BOWL, ON A LEDGE

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July 2, 04:17 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from a Private Connecticut Collection

JOHANNES BOUMAN

1601 - 1658

STILL LIFE OF FRUIT IN A KRAAK BOWL, ON A LEDGE


signed Boumann fec (lower right)

oil on panel

panel: 23 ¼ by 29 ¼ inches (59 by 74.3 cm)

framed: 30 by 35 ½ inches (76.2 by 90.2 cm)

Private collection, New York, 1952

Victor Spark, New York, by 1963

Private collection, 1965 (acquired from the above; sold: Sotheby's, New York, January 14, 1988, lot 98)

Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Maler und Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1979, vol. I, n.p., pl. 178, illustrated

E. Coatalem, 17th Century Still-Life Painting in France, Dijon, France, 2014, pp. 132-133, illustrated

New Orleans, Louisiana, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, Fêtes de la Palette, November 1962 - January 1963, no. 21 

Flint, Michigan, Flint Institute of Arts, 1966

Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, 1973 - 1987 (on loan)

Jean-Jacques Bauman was born in Strasbourg and adopted the Dutch form of his name when he relocated to Amsterdam in or before 1622. He drew inspiration from German still life painters like Georg Flegel, as well as from Dutch and Flemish artists like Ambrosius Bosschaert. Bouman specialized in food still lifes and included luxury items from the far East like the present kraak bowl. The same bowl appears frequently in the artist's work, suggesting that he had enough financial success to own such an item.