Lot 26: Willem van Aelst , Delft 1627 - in or after 1683 Amsterdam (?) Still life of game with a pheasant, a duck, a kingfisher and other birds oil on copper

Name: Willem van Aelst , Delft 1627 - in or after 1683 Amsterdam (?) Still life of game with a pheasant, a duck, a kingfisher and other birds oil on copper
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: f9824ba971

Est: £20,000 GBP - £30,000 GBPSold:

Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USApril 22, 2009

Item Overview

Description

signed and dated upper right: w.v.aelst/ 1654 oil on copper

Dimensions

measurements note 46.5 by 37 cm.; 18 1/4 by 14 1/2 in.

Artist or Maker

Willem van Aelst

Literature

Galerie de Lucien Bonaparte, Paris 1812, p. 2, no. 32, plate 132;
B. Edelein-Badie, La collection de tableaux de Lucien Bonaparte, Prince de Canino, Phd Dissertation 1992, University Paul Valéry de Montpellier, vol. II, pp. 220, no. 1;
M. Natoli ed., Luciano Bonaparte: le sue collezioni d'arte, le sua residenze a Roma, nel Lazio, in Italia, 1804-1840, Rome 1995, p. 353, no. 197.

Provenance

Lucien Bonaparte, Prince de Canino, (1775-1840), by 1812.

Notes

We are grateful to Fred G. Meijer for endorsing the attribution on the basis of photographs.

Auction Details

Old Masters & Early British Paintings

Sotheby's

April 22, 2009, 12:00 PM EST

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

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