Lot 120: SIMON LUTTICHUYS LONDON 1610 - 1661 AMSTERDAM

A STILL LIFE OF PEACHES, GRAPES, A LEMON, A SEGMENT OF ORANGE, HAZELNUTS AND A BREAD ROLL, TOGETHER WITH A ROEMER, A LARGE GOLD PRONCKBLOKAAL AND A SILVER PLATTER, ALL LAID OUT ON A DRAPED TABLE

measurements note
63.5 by 76.8 cm.; 25 by 30 1/4 in.

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Mrs. P. Ward, Brighton;
Mrs. La Mare, Brighton;
With The Leger Galleries, London, 1962;
With J. Rosenthal, Amsterdam, 1966-7;
With J.R. Bier, Haarlem, 1968, from whom bought by the Herwegs.

LITERATURE

S. H. Pavière, A Dictionary of Flower, Fruit and Still Life Painters, vol. I, 1962, p. 42, reproduced plate 46a;
W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Maler und Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, vol. II, Munich 1980, no. 757, reproduced;
N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message..., Schiedam 1980, vol. II, p. 93, no. 462, reproduced.

NOTE

A similar picture by Luttichuys, also with a Pronkbeker, silver platter, roemer, wan-li porcelain dish and curtain to the left, is in Poznan, Museum Narodowe.

We are grateful to Dr. Bernd Ebert for confirming Luttichuys' authorship in a recent letter to the owner following first hand inspection. Dr. Ebert will include this picture in his forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Simon and Isaac Luttichuys.

Sold with the certificate of Dr. Walther Bernt, dated 26 June 1968.