Lot 158: SEBASTIEN STOSKOPFF STRASBOURG 1597 - 1657 IDSTEIN

oil on canvas

42 by 57.5 cm.; 16 1/2 by 22 1/4 in.

R. Forrer, Les Antiquités, les tableaux et les objets d'art de la collection Alfred Ritleng à Strasbourg, Strasbourg 1906, no. 1018, note 27;
M. Faré, Le Grand Siècle de la Nature Morte en France, Paris 1974, p. 130, reproduced;
B. Hahn-Woernle, Sebastian Stoskopff, Stuttgart 1996, pp. 238-9, cat. no. 56, reproduced.

Alfred Ritleng, Strasbourg, 1906;
G. Bernier, Paris;
With Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd.,, London, 1980;
With E. V. Thaw, New York;
Private Collection, United States, until sold, New York, Christie's, 31 January 1997, lot 67, for $63,000 to the present owner.

Though similar in composition to some of Stoskopff's earlier works, such as the Breakfast piece with rolled wafers in Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, of about 1625-30, this picture, painted in a more economical and refined style, with a drier application of colour, is typical of his later works, and was probably painted circa 1640, shortly after he returned from his second stay in Paris to his native Strasbourg, where this picture first came to light in 1906.

Alfred Ritleng was President of the Société des Amis des Arts de Strasbourg, whose collection, published in 1906, contained three works by Stoskopff.