Lot 21: OTHER PROPERTIES CORNELIS JACOBSZ. DELFF GOUDA 1570/71 - 1643 DELFT A KITCHEN STILL LIFE WITH

OTHER PROPERTIES CORNELIS JACOBSZ. DELFF GOUDA 1570/71 - 1643 DELFT A KITCHEN STILL LIFE WITH HARES, FOWL, BREAD AND FRUIT ON A TABLE, CHEESES ON A PLATE ON A STOOL, FISH, CABBAGES, CARROTS AND OTHER VEGETABLES, COPPER PANS AND OTHER KITCHEN UTENSILS ON ANOTHER TABLE, TOGETHER WITH A MAID HOLDING A PLATE WITH A PIECE OF MEAT AND A COUPLE SITTING BEFORE A FIREPLACE IN THE BACKGROUND

signed upper left: CJD (in ligature) elff

oil on panel

PROVENANCE

A.J. van Woerkom, Voorburg, 1937;
F.W. van Heijst, The Hague, 1942 (restored by Dr. A.M. de Wild in 1941/2).
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

F.G. Meijer, The Ashmolean Museum [...] The Collection of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Paintings Bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward, Oxford/Zwolle 2003, p. 201, under cat. no. 28, reproduced fig. 28.2.
CATALOGUE NOTE

Cornelis Delff was first taught by his father Jacob and then started working under Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (1562-1638). From 1610 onwards he moved to Delft where he worked until the end of his life in 1643. After his teacher Cornelisz. van Haarlem, Delff was the first to produce kitchen still lifes in the style of the Flemish painter Pieter Aertsen (1507/8-1575) in Holland. The difference with Delff's kitchen scenes were that he focussed more on various kitchen utensils like pots and pans etc. instead of food, fruit and vegetables, as can also be seen in the present picture.

85.4 by 145.3 cm.