Lot 128: *ALEXANDER ADRIAENSSEN THE ELDER (ANTWERP 1587-1661)

*ALEXANDER ADRIAENSSEN THE ELDER (ANTWERP 1587-1661)
A still life of fish on a table
signed and dated ‘Alex Adriaenssen fecit A.
1647’ (on table leg, lower left)
oil on canvas
66 x 98cm (26 x 38 9/16in).

Provenance
With Han Jüngeling, The Hague, 1963
With Alfred Bader, Milwaukee, 1978, where
purchased by the present owner’s late father
Literature
G. Spiessens, Leven en werk van de
Antwerpse schilder Alexander Adriaenssen,
Brussels, 1990, p. 134, nr. 55, afb. 36
Exhibited
Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 17th
Century Dutch and Flemish Painting, October-
November 1967, cat. no. 1
The present painting is accompanied by
a letter from Dr. Walter Berndt (dated 16
March 1965) stating that there are similar
compositions in the Museum of Fine Arts,
Budapest and the Musée Rapail in Paris.
We are grateful to Fred Meijer for confirming
the attribution to Adriaenssen on the basis of
colour photographs.