Lot 123: PETER BINOIT

PETER BINOIT COLOGNE CIRCA 1590 - 1632 HANAU A STILL LIFE WITH A BASKET OF PEACHES, GRAPES, SNAIL SHELLS, MEDLERS AND DEAD GAME, ALL ARRANGED BENEATH AN OPEN WINDOW remains of signature and date lower right oil on panel 58.3 by 86.6 cm.; 23 by 34 1/8 in.

Cologne, Wahre Wunder - Sammler und Sammlungen im Rheinland, 2000.

Possibly G. Bott, "Stillebenmalerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, Isaak Soreau, Peter Binoit," in Kunst in Hessen und am Mittelrhein, vols. 1 and 2, no. 25;
E. Greindl, Les Peintres Flamands de Nature Morte au XVIIυe Siècle, Sterrebeek 1983, p. 338, no. 30;
Probably G. Bott, Die Stillebenmaler Soreau, Binoit, Codino und Marrell in Hanau und Frankfurt 1600-1650, Hanau 2001, p. 206, either cat. no. WV.B. 31 or WV.B.32 or both.

Possibly Freiherr von Fürstenberg, Bamberg, before 1931;
Possibly V.J. Mayring, Nuremberg, 1959;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 13 December 1979, lot 39, where acquired by the present owner.

In his 2001 catalogue Bott includes two photographs of apparently the same painting (nos. WV.B. 31 and WV.B.32). He seems to have known them each only on the basis of the rather poor old photographs he reproduces so found it impossible to ascertain whether they were in fact different, or one and the same. He does provide different provenance and signature details for each work however, as well as giving an erroneous reference to Greindl's 1983 list for the former. What is certain is that this painting was sold at Sotheby's in 1978 where it was bought by the current owner and it is fairly certain, there being no apparent differences between it and either of the photographs reproduced, that it is identifiable with one or, more likely, both of the works published by Bott.