Lot 257: GERKE JANS DE JAGER LEEUWARDEN 1748- 1822 GRONINGEN

STILL LIFE WITH A BANNER, FLOWERS IN A TERRACOTTA URN, A BAS-RELIEF, A GLOBE, AN OPENED LETTER AND BLAEU'S ATLAS ALL RESTING ON A PARTLY DRAPED STONE LEDGE

measurements note
249.8 by 192.4 cm.; 98 by 75 3/4 in.

inscribed on the letter: Mon. Heer/ de Hoon Soir, Jeudi le 13 ^eme/ Sept heures RSVP

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 13 December 1996, lot 24, for £78,500;
Anonymous sale ("Property of a Private Collector"), New York, Sotheby's, 24 January 2002, lot 108, for $110,000.

NOTE

Joan Blaeu's Atlas Major, of which De Jager has represented eight of the twelve volumes, was first published in 1662 and consisted of almost 600 double page maps. It was the most costly printed book of the seventeenth century, the Golden Age of cartography.

A series of works by De Jager were sold Amsterdam, C.F. Roos, 26 July 1917, lot 2.