JAN VERMEULEN | Still life with an open book

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May 7, 02:06 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a European Private Collection

JAN VERMEULEN

active in Haarlem before 1652 - in or after 1655

STILL LIFE WITH AN OPEN BOOK

signed on the hourglass centre: IVM

oil on canvas

unframed: 103.5 x 84.3 cm.; 40¾ x 33¼in.

framed: 116 x 97 cm.; 45 5/8 x 38 1/4 in.

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Johann Peter Clemens (1820-79), owner of the private Banking House Clemens, Koblenz;

Thence by inheritance to his daughter Angelika Liebieg (1847-1919), Schloß Liebieg, Kobern-Gondorf and Reichenberg (now Liberec, Czech Republic);

Thence by inheritance to the present owner.

A comparable painting by the artist, with a similar composition in reverse, is in The Mauritshuis, The Hague (inv. no. 402).¹