Art du XVIIème siècle/17th century art

Sebastian Stoskopff (Strassbourg 1597 - 1657 Idstein ), A flagon of wine, a wine glass, a loaf of bread and knife and pies on a pewter plate. Signed lower left. Oil on canvas, 19¼ x 24 inches / 48.9 x 61 cm, POA © Adam Williams Fine Art Ltd Sebastian Stoskopff was from Alsace and brought up in the independent Protestant republic of Strasbourg. In 1615, after serving his apprenticeship in the studio of the miniaturist and engraver Friedrich Brentel the Elder, he became the pupil of the painter and architect Daniel Soreau (d. 1619)... [Lire la suite]

Willem van Aelst, Still life. Oil on canvas 37,4 x 31,1 cm. Signed and dated 1679, POA © Kunsthandel P. de Boer bv Provenance: Collection D.A. van Dongen, AmsterdamWith Charles Roelofsz, AmsterdamPrivate collection Rotterdam Kunsthandel P. de Boer bv.  Herengracht 512, 1017 CC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Louis Michiels (Active in the Hague 1672-1680), Hunting still life. Oil on canvas, 70 x 53 cm. Signed, POA © Kunsthandel P. de Boer bv Provenance: Private collection Sweden Kunsthandel P. de Boer bv.  Herengracht 512, 1017 CC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Floris Gerritsz. van Schooten (Haarlem active c. 1605 - 1656), Still Life of Fruit on a Table Draped with a Dark Cloth: Plums, Apples, Bunches of Black and White Grapes and Pears, signed with monogram in the middle right (on a leaf above the pears): F V S, oil on panel, 24 x 40 inches (52 x 83 cm), POA © Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts. This lush still life of fruit is an excellent example of a lesser-known aspect of the oeuvre of the Haarlem still-life painter, Floris van Schooten, who was a contemporary and fellow townsman of Floris... [Lire la suite]

Simon Luttichuys (Dutch, 1610 - 1661), Still life. Oil on canvas, 30 ¾ x 25 ¼ inches, 78 x 64.1 cm., Signed right: S. L. fecet / 1649, POA © French & Company, Llc.  The recent emergence of this finely preserved still life alters, yet again, our notion of quality in seventeenth-century Dutch still life. Of all periods and genres, Netherlandish still-life painting lacks a complete sense of canon and chronology, in part because ideas of development and progress are comparatively unimportant. The work of many... [Lire la suite]

Francesco Noletti (Malta 1611 - Rome 1654), Carpet Still Life. Oil on canvas, 38.8 x 53.3 in.; 98.6 x 135.5 cm, POA © French & Company, Llc. Provenance: Private collection, Italy from the 19th centurySale, Dorotheum, Vienna, April 19, 2016, lot 49 Literature: In this stylish painting, Francesco Noletti used heavily primed brushwork to depict the large weave, vivid colors and bold geometric patterns of Ushak carpets from western Anatolia. Shape-defining whites and fiery reds frame alternating blue and orange... [Lire la suite]

Willem Claesz Heda (Haarlem 1594 - Haarlem 1680), Still life with a blackberry pie on a pewter plate, Signed and dated ‘HEDA. 1644’. Oil on panel, 31 7/8 x 39 7/8 inches (80.6 x 101.5 cm), POA © French & Company, Llc Still Life with Blackberry Pie is a splendid addition to the oeuvre of Willem Claesz Heda and to the genre of still life painting in the Dutch Golden Age. Painted on panel and in excellent condition, the painting dates from Heda’s maturity, when his compositions combined monumental simplicity, aristocratic reserve... [Lire la suite]

Isaac van Duynen (Dordrecht 1628 - The Hague 1678/1681), A sturgeon, haddock, a herring, a turbot, a lobster, salmon steaks, mussels, oysters and plaice on a stone giving table. Oil on Canvas, 102.8 x 129.7 cm; Signed lower right: Ivan duijnen © David Koetser Gallery. Provenance: Sale Christie’s Amsterdam, 9 May 2000, lot 149, reproduced;Private Collection, The Netherlands.  Exhibition: Johnny van Haeften Gallery, London, 1989, no. 12. David Koetser Gallery, Talstrasse 37, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland... [Lire la suite]

Jan Fris (Amsterdam 1627 - 1672), Still Life with an earthenware Jug, a deck of cards and smoking paraphernalia. Oil on Panel, 38.1 x 29.4 cm. © David Koetser Gallery. Provenance: J. Danser Nijman, Amsterdam;Macalester Loup, The Hague;Henry Philip Hope (1774-1839), London;Thence by descent to his nephew Henry Thomas Hope (1808-1862);By whom bequeathed to his widow, Anne Adèle Bichat;By whom bequeathed to her grandson, Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope (1866-1941), 8th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, in 1884;With Asher... [Lire la suite]

Francesco Zucchi (Florence 1562 - Rome 1622), Four Anthropomorphic Figures: An Allegory of the Four Seasons. All four painted; Oil on Canvas, 98 x 73cm. © David Koetser Gallery. Provenance: Collection Marquis of Salamanca. David Koetser Gallery, Talstrasse 37, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland