Lot 65: JAN MORTEL LEIDEN 1652 - 1719

OTHER PROPERTIES

A STIL LIFE WITH A PORCELAIN BOWL WITH STRAWBERRIES, A ROSE AND A BUTTERFLY, A WINEGLASS, GRAPES, PRAWNS, GOOSEBERRIES, ALL ON A STONE LEDGE

A STIL LIFE WITH A PORCELAIN BOWL WITH STRAWBERRIES, A ROSE AND A BUTTERFLY, A WINEGLASS, GRAPES, PRAWNS, GOOSEBERRIES, ALL ON A STONE LEDGE

measurements note
27.8 by 40 cm.

bears a Cornelis de Heem- monogram lower right

oil on panel

PROVENANCE

Stanley N. Barbee, Beverly Hills, California (according to a label on the reverse).
Anonymous sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, 20 April 1944, lot 12 (as Cornelis de Heem).

Bears a label on the reverse with inventory number 164

NOTE

Jan Mortel spent his entire life in Leiden and was at least from 1690 onwards the official painter of the University's botanical garden.
Fred G. Meijer was the first to suggest an attribution to Jan Mortel in 1982. He recently kindly confirmed this on the basis of photographs.