Master Paintings
Master Paintings
Property from a Distinguished European Collection
Edwaert Collier
Vanitas still life with a violin, silver incense burner, globe, sword, box of jewelry, and manuscripts
Auction Closed
May 20, 03:42 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from a Distinguished European Collection
Edwaert Collier
Breda 1642 - London 1708
Vanitas still life with a violin, silver incense burner, globe, sword, box of jewelry, and manuscripts
signed and dated on the bottom right of the Erasmus portrait print: E. Collier fecit. 1696
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 40 by 49 in.; 101.5 by 124.3 cm.
J.W. Clarke, Bridwell, 1860 (according to an old label on the reverse);
Anonymous sale, Torquay, UK, Bearne's, 6 March 1973, lot 453;
Anonymous sale, Torquay, UK, Bearne's, 22 February 1989, lot 202;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 7 July 1989, lot 6;
There acquired by the present collector.
Anonymous sale, Torquay, UK, Bearne's, 6 March 1973, lot 453;
Anonymous sale, Torquay, UK, Bearne's, 22 February 1989, lot 202;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 7 July 1989, lot 6;
There acquired by the present collector.
D. Wahrman, Mr. Collier's letter racks : a tale of art & illusion at the threshold of the modern information age, New York 2012, pp. 23-25, reproduced in color p. 24, fig. 1.1.