Lot 67: STUDIO OF ISAAK SOREAU FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN 1604 - IN OR AFTER 1645

THE PROPERTY OF A FAMILY

A STILL LIFE WITH BLUE AND WHITE GRAPES IN A BASKET, TOGETHER WITH RED CURRANTS, HAZELNUTS AND A PEACH, ALL ON A WOODEN LEDGE

measurements note
41.2 by 52.5 cm.

oil on panel

PROVENANCE

With J. Herbrand, Paris, by 1942;
Private collection, Paris;
Mrs H.F.L. Korthals Altes-van Beek, Huizen, by 1963;
Thence by descent.

EXHIBITED

Laren, Singer Museum, Modernen van Toen 1570-1630. Vlaamse schilderkunst en haar invloed, 15 June-1 September 1963, p. 29, cat. no. 143, reproduced plate 14 (as Isaak Soreau).

LITERATURE

G. Bott, 'Stillebenmaler des 17. Jahrhunderts Isaak Soreau -- Peter Binoit', in Kunst in Hessen und am Mittelrhein. Schriften der Hessischen Museen, 1961/2, pp. 45 and 64, no. 14, reproduced;
G. Bott, Die Stillebenmaler Soreau, Binoit, Codino und Marrell in Hanau und Frankfurt 1600-1650, Hanau 2001, pp. 89 and 178, no. WV.IS.21, reproduced (both the above as by Isaak Soreau).

NOTE

On the basis of photographs Professor Gerhard Bott considers this still life to be an autograph work by Soreau, a view which he has recently kindly confirmed. He compares it to another similar composition by Soreau, a Still life with a basket with peaches, grapes and plums, on copper, which was with P. de Boer, Amsterdam in 1957 (see Literature below, Bott 2001, p. 179, no. WV.IS.22, reproduced).

Fred G. Meijer thinks on the basis of first hand inspection that this work has been painted on an Antwerp panel. Soreau spent some time in Antwerp and was influenced in his still lifes by his Antwerp peers such as Jacob van Hulsdonck (1582-1647). The works of the two artists are therefore often very similar.