Jan Davidsz. De Heem (Utrecht 1606 - Antwerp 1683), Grapes and apples in a Wan-li dish with oysters on a stone ledge
Jan Davidsz. De Heem (Utrecht 1606 - Antwerp 1683), Grapes and apples in a Wan-li dish with oysters on a stone ledge. Oil on Panel, 31.5 x 39.6 cm. Signed and Dated upper right: J.D.De Heem f A°. 1653. Photo courtesy David Koetser Gallery
Provenance: Probably Anonymous sale, Zoeterwode, 19 April 1775, lot 13 (50 guilders to Neuwman);
Possibily J. van de Velden Collection;
Possibly his sale, Amsterdam, 3 December 1781, lot 31 (33 guilders to Yver);
Hans Ludwig Larsen Collection, Wassenaar (1892-1937), by 1936;
Loaned by Susanne Menzel Larsen (1911-2001) to the De Lakenhal Museum, Leiden, 6 July, 1939;
Confiscated by the German authorities following the occupation of The Netherlands. After May 1940;
Sale Van Marle and Bignell, The Hague, 25 January 1943, lot 35;
Acquired for the Sonderauftrag Linz by Dr. Erhard Göpel (Linz no. 2772);
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Salt Mines at Alt Aussee (Alt Aussee no. 2746) and transferred to the Central Collecting Point, Munich, 12 July 1945 (MCCP no. 4009);
Transferred to the Stichting Nederlandsch Kunstbezit, The Netherlands, 15 April 1946 (NK 1441);
Restituted to the heirs of Hans Ludwig Larsen, 2014.
Exhibition: The Hague, Schilderijengalerij Prins Willem V, 1983-1995, on loan from the Instituut Collectie Nederland; Delft, Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, 1995, on loan from the Instituut Collectie Nederland.
Literature: O. ter Kuile, Seventeenth-century North Netherlandish Still Lifes, Amsterdam and The Hague, 1985, pp. 114-115, no. VI-26;
Old master paintings. An illustrated summary catalogue. Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst / The Netherlandish Office for the Fine Arts, Zwolle and The Hague, 1992, p. 134, no. 1084, reproduced;
E. Gemar-Koeltzsch, Luca Bild-Lexikon, Holläandische Stillebenmaler im 17. Jahrhundert, Lingen, 1995, no. 160/35.
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