Lot 173: MICHIEL SIMONS (active 1648, d.1673 Utrecht)

Tulips, carnations and other flowers in a vase, grapes and peaches in a porcelain bowl, with glasses of wine, a peeled lemon on a dish and other fruit on a partially draped stone ledge signed 'M.Simons.f' (lower center, on the ledge) oil on canvas 341/4 x 447/8 in. (87 x 114 cm.) PROVENANCE Private Collection, Utrecht, before 1941. with Richard Green, London, 1976. LITERATURE W. Bernt, Die Niederl„ndischen Maler und Zeichner des 17.Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1980, III, no. 1144. EXHIBITION Utrecht, Centraal Museum, 1952, no. 268a.