Lot 149: JACOB ROOTIUS

JACOB ROOTIUS HOORN 1644 - CIRCA 1681 STILL LIFE OF FLOWERS IN A VASE ON A STONE LEDGE WITH A CORN COB AND A SNAIL indistinctly signed (?) lower left: J..... oil on canvas 91.8 by 72.5 cm.; 36 by 28 3/8 in.

Basel, Kunstmuseum, Hollandhilfe, 1945, no. 47 (as by Abraham Mignon).

With Galerie M. Schulthess, Basel;
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Christie's, 14th December 1990, lot 124 for £55,000.

Still lifes by Rootius, who was a pupil and follower of Jan Davidsz. de Heem, are now very rare. A very similar still life of the same dimensions, signed and dated 1674, was sold in these Rooms 2 December 1964, lot 24 (reproduced in W. Bernt, The Netherlandish painters of the seventeenth century, vol. III, Oxford 1970, p. 981).