Osias Beert the Elder
Still Life with Oysters, Langoustines, Olives, Chestnuts, and Façon de Venise Wine Glasses
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May 21, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Osias Beert the Elder
Antwerp circa 1580 - 1623
Still Life with Oysters, Langoustines, Olives, Chestnuts, and Façon de Venise Wine Glasses
oil on oak panel
panel: 22 ⅝ by 32 in.; 57.8 by 81.3 cm
framed: 31 ½ by 40 ⅝ in.; 80.0 by 103.2 cm
Princess von Schwarzenberg, Mainz, circa 1800 (according to a label on the verso);
Anonymous sale, Paris, Piasa, 24 June 1998, lot 10;
Where acquired by Johnny van Haeften, London;
From whom acquired via private sale, Sotheby's, New York, by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III, 1998.
A.K. Wheelock, Jr., in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock, Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 26-29, 164-165, cat. no. 3, reproduced.
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 30 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 3.