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Pieter Claesz.

Toebackje Still Life

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Pieter Claesz.

Berchem 1597/1598 – 1660/1661 Haarlem

Toebackje Still Life


signed and dated center right on the tobacco paper: pieter Claessen / Anno 1622

oil on panel

panel: 10 ½ by 13 ⅝ in.; 26.7 by 34.6 cm

framed: 17 ¾ by 20 ⅝ in.; 45.1 by 52.4 cm

Private collection, England;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 7 December 1988, lot 123 (as "Attributed to Claesz.");

Where acquired by Richard Green, London;

From whom acquired by the late collector, 1989.

Exhibition of Old Master Paintings, exhibition catalogue, London 1991, n.p., cat. no. 7, reproduced;

M. Brunner-Bulst, Pieter Claesz.: der Hauptmeister des Haarlemer Stillebens im 17. Jahrhundert, Lingen 2004, pp. 122, 126, 155-158, 165, 167, 170, 189, 207-208, cat. no. 4, reproduced pp. 13, 352 (detail of signature);

P. Biesboer, "Pieter Claesz in Haarlem," in Pieter Claesz: Master of Haarlem Still Life, exhibition catalogue, P. Biesboer, M. Brunner-Bulst, H.D. Gregory, and C. Klemm (eds.), Zwolle 2004, pp. 16-18, reproduced;

M. Brunner-Bulst, "Pieter Claesz: The Rediscovery of the Painter and His Origins," in Pieter Claesz: Master of Haarlem Still Life, exhibition catalogue, P. Biesboer, M. Brunner-Bulst, H.D. Gregory, and C. Klemm (eds.), Zwolle 2004, pp. 42, 114, cat. no. 2, reproduced;

W. Liedtke, Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven and London 2007, vol. I, p. 126.