Lot 564. Paul Dorival, 1604 Grenoble - 1684, Still life with basket, grapes and peaches. Oil on canvas. Relined. 80 x 115 cm. Estimate € 150,000 - 200,000. Courtesy Hampel.

Accompanied by an expert's report by René Millet Expertise.

The singularity of this painting is, among other things, the documented signature and date, however now sealed due to the relining. This is almost unique painting by Dorival with these features. Dorival's style is influenced by Isaac Soreau or Louise Moillon. Restored. (†)

Provenance: Mestrallet collection, Paris, c. 1962, as signed on the reverse and dated 1660.
Maurice Segoura, Paris, c. 2000, as signed on the reverse dated 1660.
Private collection, Paris.

Literature: Michel Faré, La nature morte en France, Geneva, 1962, vol. II, ill. 130, (signed on the reverse).
Curt Benedict, Petit Maitres de la Nature Morte en France, in: L'Oeil, Edition 91-92, July-August 1962, p. 40 and 44.
Michel Faré, Le Grand Siècle de la nature morte en France. Le XVIIe siècle, Freiburg / Paris 1974, pp. 144-145, ill. (signed and dated 1660 on reverse).
Christopher Wright, The French Painters of Seventeenth Century, Boston 1985, p. 177 (signed and dated 1660 on reverse).
Claudia Salvi, D'après nature. La nature morte en France au XVIIe siècle, Dornick 2000, pp. 76-77, ill. (signed and dated 1661 on reverse).
Eric Coatalem, La nature morte française au XVIIe siècle, Paris 2017, p. 150, ill. on p. 151 (signed and dated 1660 on reverse).