Lot 88: GOMMAERT VAN DER GRACHT MALINES CIRCA 1590-1639 AN EXTENSIVE LANDSCAPE WITH AN EXOTIC ARRAY OF

GOMMAERT VAN DER GRACHT MALINES CIRCA 1590-1639 AN EXTENSIVE LANDSCAPE WITH AN EXOTIC ARRAY OF FLOWERS, FRUIT AND VEGETABLES WITH A GOAT BY A TREE; A SCENE DEPICTING 'NOLI ME TANGERE' IN A GARDEN BEYOND

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Rufford Old Hall, where photographed in the Dining Room, 1929
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

H. Avray Tipping, 'Rufford Old Hall, Lancashire, A Seat of Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, Bt.-II', in Country Life, 26 October 1929, p.574, reproduced plate 11.
CATALOGUE NOTE

Gommaert van der Gracht was born circa 1590 and became a pupil of Michiel Coxie the Younger in Malines in 1602. He seems to have settled in Malines where he specialised primarily in painting landscapes. There is a signed painting by him (174 by 270 cm.) of an 'Assembly of fruit and vegetables with three putti' in the Stadsmuseum, Malines and another signed painting was sold l'Hôtel Rameau, Versailles, 7 June 1967, lot 224. A landscape, very comparable to the present painting, is recorded by E. Greindl, (Les Peintres Flamands de Nature Morte au XV11e Siecle, 1983, p.88, fig.52, and p.89, fig.53), in a private collection, Rio de Janeiro

175 by 269cm.; 69 by 106in.