Lot 34: SIMON LUTTICHUYS LONDON 1610 - 1661 AMSTERDAM

PROPERTY FROM THE BONDE COLLECTION, ERICSBERG, SWEDEN

A STILL LIFE WITH A PEWTER JUG ON ITS SIDE, A GLASS OF BEER AND WALNUTS ON PEWTER DISHES, ALL ARRANGED ON A TABLE DRAPED WITH A GREEN CLOTH

measurements note
78 by 64.1 cm.; 30 3/4 by 25 1/4 in.

signed with italics and dated centre right: S.L. fecit/ 1649

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Per Lagerbring (1733-99), whose collection was bought in its entirety by
David Henric Hildebrand (1712-1791), Ericsberg;
His son David Gotthard Henric 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 to the present day.

EXHIBITED

Stockholm, National Museum, Holländska Mästare I Svensk Ägo (Dutch Masters in Swedish Collections), 3 March-30 April 1967, no. 93.

LITERATURE

O. Granberg, Catalogue raisonné de tableaux anciens inconnus jusqu'ici dans les collections privées de la Suède, Stockholm1886, 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 geschiedenis van her Hollandische stillevens in de zeventiende eeuw, dissertation, Amsterdam 1933, p. 45;
C. Nordenfalk (ed.), B. Wennberg, Holländska Mästare I Svensk Ägo, exhibition catalogue, Stockholm 1967, p. 79, no. 93;
N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message as intimated by the painters of the 'Monochrome Banketje', Schiedam 1980, vol. I, pp. 189-90, reproduced fig. 257, vol. 2, pp. 89-90, no. 443.

NOTE

This still life is a key work within Luttichuys' oeuvre, because it supports the supposition made by Laurens Bol and others that the artist, who was born in London in 1610 of Dutch stock, spent that early part of his career in the sphere of influence of Jan Jansz. den Uyl and Jan Jansz. Treck in Amsterdam. This picture is strongly reminiscent of the work of both painters, in its restricted palette based on numerous subtle variations of a limited number of colours, and the use of a central motif of a pewter tankard.