12 avril 2023

'All Consuming: Art and the Essence of Food' at Norton Simon Museum

Frans Snyders (Flemish, 1579-1657), Still Life with Fruit and Vegetables, 1625-35. Oil on canvas, 173.4 x 256.5 cm. The Norton Simon Foundation. © The Norton Simon Foundation Pasadena, CA—The Norton Simon Museum presents All Consuming: Art and the Essence of Food, an exhibition that explores how artists responded to and shaped food cultures in Europe from 1500 to 1900. Food and drink appear nearly everywhere in the history of European art, in depictions of luscious fruits and vegetables, sumptuous... [Lire la suite]

20 juillet 2022

Pieter Claesz, Strawberries, currants and bread on a pewter platter, a roemer filled with wine, strawberries, cherries and curra

Lot 16. Pieter Claesz (Berchem 1597/1598-1660/1661 Haarlem), Strawberries, currants and bread on a pewter platter, a roemer filled with wine, strawberries, cherries and currants in a porcelain bowl, a cheese basket, bread, nuts, a tazza, a silver knife and a knife-case, on a partly draped table, oil on panel, 19 5⁄8 x 28 3⁄4 in. (50 x 73 cm.) Price realised GBP 942,000 (Estimate GBP 800,000 – GBP 1,200,000). © Christie's 2022 Property from the Wetzlar Collection. Provenance: with Nijstad, The... [Lire la suite]
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06 janvier 2021

Willem Claesz. Heda, A banquet piece with an overturned tazza and oysters

Lot 30. Willem Claesz. Heda (Haarlem circa 1596 - 1680), A banquet piece with an overturned tazza and oysters, signed and dated on the knife lower right: Heda 1635, , oil on panel, 23 ½ by 31 ½ in.; 59.7 by 80 cm. Estimate 2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's. Provenance: Jean Dollfus, Paris; His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 20-21 May 1912, lot 51, to Schnell; Acquired from the Dollfus Family by a private Swiss collector; By... [Lire la suite]
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08 mars 2020

NATURE IN LAYING. Masterpieces from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in dialogue with contemporary photography

Pieter Claesz, Vanitas, Dated 1656, Oil on oak table, 39.5 cm × 60.5 cm, Courtesy KHM-Museumsverband. Treviso confirms its presence on the stage of great art with an initiative of high cultural value and international scope. From 30 November 2019 to 31 May 2020, the Santa Caterina Museum  hosts the NATURE IN POSA exhibition  . Masterpieces from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in dialogue with contemporary photography ,  promoted by the  City of... [Lire la suite]
26 décembre 2019

Vanitas Still Life from The Mauritshuis

Anonymous (Southern Netherlands), Vanitas Still Life, c. 1530?, oil on panel, 34.2 x 26 cm. © 2019 Mauritshuis Pieter Claesz (1597/1598 - 1661), Vanitas Still Life, 1630, oil on panel, 39.5 x 56 cm. © 2019 Mauritshuis Anonymous (Northern Netherlands), Vanitas Still Life, c. 1650, oil on canvas, 45 x 56 cm. © 2019 Mauritshuis Edwaert Collier, Vanitas Still Life, 1675, oil on panel, 19.5 x 17 cm. © 2019 Mauritshuis
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02 janvier 2019

Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents Dutch masterpieces in a new light

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, Delft 1632-1675 Delft), Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, ca. 1662. Oil on canvas, 18 x 16 in. (45.7 x 40.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889, 89.15.21. NEW YORK, NY.- Dutch paintings of the 17th century—the Golden Age of Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer—have been a highlight of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection since the Museum's founding purchase in 1871 . The exhibition In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The... [Lire la suite]

08 mars 2017

"Slow Food: Still Lifes of the Golden Age" opens at the Mauritshuis in The Hague

Clara Peeters (Active in Antwerpen, c.1607-1621 of later), Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels, c. 1615, Mauritshuis, The Hague, Purchased by the Mauritshuis with support of the Stichting Vrienden van het Mauritshuis, the BankGiro Loterij, the Vereniging Rembrandt (with help of its A.M. Roeters van Lennep Fonds, Utrechtse Rembrandt Cirkel and Caius Cirkel) and a private individual Fonds, Utrechtse Rembrandt Cirkel en Caius Cirkel) en een particulier, 2012 HE HAGUE.- From 9 March through 25 June 2017... [Lire la suite]
18 mars 2016

Xaver Scheidwimmer at TEFAF Maastricht 2016

Balthasar van der Ast (Middelburg 1593-1657 Delft), Still Life with fruit in a Wanli-bowl with a bouquet of flowers,tulips and shells on a table. Oil on panel, 40 x 70 cm. Indistinctly signed and dated '16(3)2'. Xaver Scheidwimmer © TEFAF Maastricht, 2016 Provenance: Private collection, France  Pieter Claesz (Berchem 1597/8-1660/1 Haarlem), till life with a roemer, a herring and olives on pewter platters, 1643. Oil on panel, 45 x 61 cm. Signed in monogram and... [Lire la suite]
02 décembre 2009

Pieter Claesz (Berchem 1597/8 - 1660/1 Haarlem), Still life with a roemer, a crab, a half-peeled lemon, and a bread roll...

Pieter Claesz (Berchem 1597/8 - 1660/1 Haarlem), Still life with a roemer, a crab, a half-peeled lemon, and a bread roll on pewter plates, a basket with fruit, and a Chinese bowl with olives, all arranged on a draped table. photo Sotheby's oil on panel, signed in monogram and dated centre left: PC(in compendium)/ 1652, 49.3 by 68.6 cm. Est. 50,000—70,000 EUR - Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium:  78,750 EUR. NOTE: In his later years Pieter Claesz. started to paint in a looser and painterly manner than that of the... [Lire la suite]
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02 décembre 2009

Pieter Claesz.(Berchem 1597/8 - 1660/1 Haarlem), A still life with an overturned pewter jug, a Roemer and a blue lined beer glas

Pieter Claesz.(Berchem 1597/8 - 1660/1 Haarlem), A still life with an overturned pewter jug, a Roemer and a blue lined beer glass, surrounded by grapes and leaves, a pewter plate with a ham, a salt cellar, a roll and a sliced lemon on pewter plates with olives in a porcelain bowl. photo Sotheby's oil on canvas, 78.3 by 94.4 cm - Est. 70,000—90,000 EUR - Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium:  108,750 EUR PROVENANCE: Collection Vicktor Decock;His sale, Paris, Charpentier, 12 May 1948, lot 62 (as by W.C. Heda);Private... [Lire la suite]
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