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Lot 29: SIMON LUTTICHUYS

Est: $1,800,000 USD - $2,500,000 USD
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 26, 2012

Item Overview

Description

LONDON 1610 - 1661 AMSTERDAM
A STILL LIFE WITH A PEWTER JUG ON ITS SIDE, A GLASS OF ALE, A SALT CELLAR, A BREAD ROLL AND OTHER OBJECTS ON A TABLE DRAPED IN A DARK GREEN CLOTH
signed with initials and dated center right: S. L. Fecit 1649
oil on canvas
30 5/8 by 25 1/4 in.; 90.5 by 64.1 cm.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Stockholm, National Museum, Holländska Mästare I Svensk Ägo (Dutch Masters in Swedish Collections), 3 March - 30 April 1967, no. 93;
Eldsberga, Kunsthandel J. Oppenheimer, Dutch Masters, February 1971, no. 30.

Literature

O. Granberg, Catalogue raisonné de tableaux anciens inconnus jusqu'ici dans les collections privées de la Suède, Stockholm 1886;
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, vol. II, Vienna/Leipzig 1910, p. 73;
O. Granberg, Inventaire général des trésors d'art... en Suède, vol. 3, Stockholm 1913, no. 63, reproduced plate 10;
A.P.A. Vorenkamp, Bijdrage tot de gesciedenis van het Hollandsche Stilleven in de zeventiende eeuw, dissertation, Amsterdam 1933, p. 45;
C. Nordenfalk, ed., B. Wenneberg, Holländska Mästare I Svensk Ägo, exhibition catalogue, Stockholm 1967, p. 79, no. 93;
I. Bergstrom, "Notes on the Boundaries of Vanitas significance," in Ijdelheid der Ijdelheden. Hollandse Vanitas- voorstellingen uit de zeventiende eeuw, exhibition catalogue, Leiden 1970, reproduced fig. 5;
Dutch Masters, exhibition catalogue, Eldsberga 1971, p. 16, cat. no. 30, reproduced;
N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message as intimated by the painters of the 'Monochrome Banketje', Schiedamn 1980, vol. 1, pp. 189-90, reproduced fig. 257, vol. 2, pp. 89-90, no. 443;
A. Veca, Vanitas. Il simbolismo del tempo, exhibition catalogue, Bergamo 1981, p. 37, reproduced fig. 27;
B. Ebert, Simon und Isaack Luttichuys, Berlin/Munich 2009, pp. 396-7, cat. no. Sim. A58, reproduced plate 77.

Provenance

Pehr Lagerbring (1733-1799), whose collection was bought in its entirety by
David Hendrik Hildebrand (1712-1791), Ericsberg;
His son David Gotthard Hendrik Hildebrand (1761-1808), who died unmarried;
His sister Agneta Sofia Hildebrand, who was married to Baron Carl Göran Bonde (1757-1840);
Thence by descent at Ericsberg until sold ("Property from the Bonde Collection, Ericsbergs Slott, Sweden"), London, Sotheby's, 5 July 2006, lot 34, where purchased by the present owner.

Auction Details

Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture

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Sotheby's
January 26, 2012, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US