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Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection
Pieter van Loo
A still life, with a vase of flowers, grapes and a peach in a stone niche
Lot Closed
March 24, 03:48 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Pieter van Loo
Haarlem 1731 - 1784
A still life, with a vase of flowers, grapes and a peach in a stone niche
Pen and brown and grey ink and watercolour over black chalk;
signed and dated lower left, in pen and black ink: P: v: Loo.Fecit 1774
unframed: 479 by 330 mm
framed: 630 by 510 mm
Pieter van Loo was one of the leading Dutch flower-painters of the 18th century. Although his watercolours of single flowers are not especially rare, only a small handful of complete still life compositions like this one have come to auction in recent decades (most recently, in 2014, a magnificent sheet, offered directly by the descendants of Baron van Slingelandt, who most likely acquired it directly from the artist).1 Two further examples are in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.2
1. Sales New York, Sotheby's, 14 January 1992, lot 70; Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 15 November 1994, lot 55; Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 15 November 1995, lot 150; and London, Sotheby's, 9 July 2014, lot 98
2. Inv. RP-T-1905-255 & RP-T-1905-256