Joris Van Son (Antwerp 1623 – 1667), Still life with crabs, peaches, apricots, grapes and a partly peeled lemon, with glasses behind, on a partly-draped table. Photo Sotheby's.

signed lower left on the table edge: J. V. SON; oil on oak panel; 45.3 by 60.2 cm.; 17 3/4 by 23 3/4 in. Estimation 12,000 — 18,000 GBP

Provenance: Private collection, by whom donated to the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, in 1912;
Alte Pinakothek, Munich;
From whom restituted by the Ministry of Culture to the heirs of the previous owner in 1921;
Hans Meitner, Vienna, by September 1925. 

We are grateful to Fred G. Meijer of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie for endorsing the attribution on the basis of photographs and for proposing a date of execution in the second half of the 1640s.

Sotheby's. Old Master & British Paintings Day Sale. London | 05 déc. 2013 - www.sothebys.com