Property from an Important Swiss Private Collection
Christiaen van Pol
Still life of peaches and black grapes with a butterfly and other insects, all upon a marble ledge
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July 5, 07:17 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Swiss Private Collection
Christiaen van Pol
Haarlem 1752–1813 Paris
Still life of peaches and black grapes with a butterfly and other insects, all upon a marble ledge
signed lower right: Van Pol
oil on marble
25.1 x 35 cm.; 9⅞ x 13¾ in.
Possibly his sale, Paris, Paillet & Delaroche, 11–19 July 1803, lot 260, for 150 francs to Paillet (‘Deux tableaux sur marbre, sujets de roses et de pêches, avec mouches, papillons et autres insectes’);
Possibly Gervais or Guévillers;
Possibly his sale or his posthumous sale, Paris, Paillet & Fleuriau, 28–29 October 1822, lot 49 (‘Pêcher et raisins peints sur marbre blanc’);
Private collection, France;
Anonymous sale, Paris, Daguerre, 28 June 2002, lot 26;
Where acquired by the present owner.
Christiaen van Pol's close friend and collaborator Jan Frans van Dael (1764–1840) executed a comparable still life, also painted on marble and featuring a similar arrangement of peaches, which was sold at auction in 1996.1
For more information about the artist and the provenance of this work please refer to A bouquet of roses in a glass vase with a butterfly, moth and beetle, all upon a marble ledge (lot 40).
1 Oil on marble, 27.2 x 34.2 cm.; anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 13 December 1996, lot310;
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