Lot 35: CORNELIS JACOBSZ. DELFF GOUDA 1570/71 - 1643 DELFT

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A KITCHEN STILL LIFE WITH FOWL, A COPPER POT, ROLLS ON TIN PLATES, APPLES AND BLACK GRAPES IN A BASKET AND MUSHROOMS ON A STONEWARE PLATE, ALL ON A TABLE, TOGETHER WITH HERRING, A SALMON, AND OTHER FISH, A STRING OF ONIONS, RED CABBAGES AND OTHER VEGETABLES, CARROTS AND ARTICHOKES IN A BASKET, MEAT ON A STONEWARE PLATE, AND A COPPER POT, ALL ON ANOTHER TABLE, AN AMOUROUS COUPLE BEHIND THE LEFT TABLE, A MERRY COMPANY PLAYING TRIC TRAC BEYOND

measurements note
131.8 by 219.1 cm.

signed lower centre on the table: C. JD ( in compendium) elff Fc.

oil on canvas, unframed

NOTE

In the wake of Pieter Aertsen and Joachim Beuckelaer, Delff is part of a second generation of kitchen still life painters. He painted these compositions around the first decade of the 17th century, adding to the still life a background scene, in this case both referring to the pleasures and leisures of life. A similar composition is at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond (see S.A. Sullivan, The Dutch Gamepiece, Totowa, New Jersey, 1984, p. 11, reproduced fig. 11).