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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 8, 2021 | Christie's | London | Old Masters Evening Sale | 21 | $****** - ****** | A banquet still life |
paintings
139.1 x 114.9 cm (54.75 x 45.25 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'J.D. de Heem' (lower centre, on the sheet of music)
(Possibly) Clemens August of Bavaria (1700-1761), Archbishop Elector of Cologne, Bishop of Paderborn, Hildesheim and Osnabrück, before at least 1761; his sale (†), Bonn, 22 May 1764 (=8th day), lot 67, ‘Un grand Tableau à Fruits de quatre pieds six pouces de hauteur & trois pieds neuf pouces de largeur, peint par Jean de Heen’ (54 x 45 in.) (54.30 Rt to the following),
Simon Mordechai Baruch (1716-1802), Bad Mergentheim and Bonn.
Anonymous sale; Christian Benjamin Rauschner, Frankfurt, 1765, lot 250, 'Auf Leinwand, Hoch 4 Schuh 6 Zoll, breit 3 Schuh 9 Zoll, Ein Stück mit Früchten. Auf Tuch gemahlt. C'est un tableau avec des fruits. Peint sur de la toile’ (54 x 45 in.).
Charles Searle Hayne (1833-1903), London; his sale (†), Christie’s, London, 16 April 1904, lot 105 (600 gns. to Schaeffer).
Henri James Simon (1851-1932), Berlin, by 1906.
Mrs. U.M. Kneppelhout-Van Braam, Oosterbeek / Mr. Egbert de Langen, Amsterdam / Mr. Count Bottaro Costa, The Hague; Frederik Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, 16 December 1919, lot 29 (8,500 guilders).
Anonymous sale; Frederik Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, 12 April 1921, lot 4a (acquired by Jonas Alexander van Bever, Amsterdam, on behalf of the following),
Jacob Lierens (1877-1949); his sale, Frederik Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, 14 October 1941 (=1st day), lot 311 (NLG 34,000).
Acquired for the “Sonderauftrag Linz” via Hans Posse, 22 October 1941 (for FL. 37,700.- or 30,000 RM) (Linz No. 2044).
Recovered by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section, transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP No. 4973), 19 July 1945.
Transferred to Amsterdam from the above, 8 July 1946.
Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit, The Netherlands, 1946, inv. no. 1010, and placed under the custody of the following,
Dienst voor’s Rijks Verspreide Kunstvoorwerpen, Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, inv. no. NK 2711.
On long-term loan from the above to the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 1948-2019, inv. no. 10231.
Restituted to the heirs of Jacob Lierens, 2019.
Berlin, Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Ausstellung von Werken alter Kunst aus dem Privatbesitz der Mitglieder des Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Verein , 1906, no. 57.
Delft, Museum 'Het Prinsenhof', Wintertentoonstelling. Van intimiteit tot theatre , 1951-2, no. 30.
Utrecht, Jaarbeurs, Musement , 19 June-13 July 1969.
Leiden, Museum De Lakenhal; and Groninger Museum, Een stuckie stillegend goet , 1985-6, no. VI-27.
Delft, Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum; and Cambridge, Harvard University, A Prosperous Past, The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands 1600-1700 , 1988-9, no. 38.
Utrecht, Centraal Museum; and Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Jan Davidsz de Heem en zijn kring , 16 February-7 July 1991, no. 8.
Madrid, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya, La pintura holandesa del siglo de ora: la escuela de Utrecht , October 1992-February 1993, no. 33.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; and Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art, The Age of Rubens , 22 September 1993-24 April 1994, no. 112.
Nagasaki, Huis ten Bosch, Masters of Utrecht: 17-19th century paintings from the collection of Centraal Museum Utrecht , 1994-5, no. 20.
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum; and Helsinki, Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Törnrosmadonnan. Och andra mästerverk från Utrecht, 1997, no. 15.
Santiago, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Dutch Masters from the Golden Age , 1997-8, no. 22.
Sao Paulo, Pinacoteca do Estado, Mestres do Século de Ouro na Pintura Holandesa , 1998, no. 22.
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum; and Essen, Kulturstiftung Ruhr Essen, Das flämische Stilleben 1550-1680 : eine Ausstellung des Kunsthistorische Museums Wien und der Kulturstiftung Ruhr Essen , 1 September-21 July 2002, no. 90.
Luxembourg, Villa Vauban, The Five Senses in Painting , 19 March-26 June 2016.
R. van Lutterveld, Kunst van Nederland. Schilders van het Stilleven , Naarden, 1947, pp. 23, 46 and 50, fig. 23.
C.H. de Jonge, Centraal Museum - Utrecht. Catalogus der schilderijen , Utrecht, 1952, pp. 56-7, no. 137 (with inaccurate provenance).
E. Greindl, Les peintres flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siècle , Brussels, 1956, pp. 103, 171 and 174 (as two different paintings).
A.P. de Mirimonde, 'Joris et Jan van Son dans les Musées de province', in La Revue des Arts , X, 1960, pp. 7-18.
P. Gammelbo, 'La natura morta Olandese nel seicento', in Antichità Viva 6 , 1963, fig. 7.
J. Foucart, Musées de Hollande, la peinture néerlandaise , Paris, 1965, section 33.
G. Bott, 'Stilleben des 17. Jahrhunderts. Jacob Marrell', in Kunst in Hessen und am Mittelrhein , VI, 1966, p. 110.
M.E. Houtzager, et. al ., Röntgenonderzoek van de oude schilderijen in het Centraal Museum te Utrecht , Utrecht, 1967, pp. 238-9.
A.P. de Mirimonde, 'Musique et symbolisme chez Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Cornleis Janszoon en Jan II Janszoon de Heem', in Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen , 1970, pp. 280-2, fig. 38 (confusing this painting and its copy).
L. Grisebach, Willem Kalf 1619-1693 , Berlin, 1974, p. 125.
R.D. Leppert, The theme of Music in Flemish Paintings of the seventeenth century , II, Munich and Salzburg, 1977, no. 270.
F.W. Robinson, W.H. Wilson, L. Silver, Catalogue of the Flemish and Dutch Paintings 1400-1900, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art , Sarasota FL, 1980, no. 84 (entry by F.W. Robinson).
E. Greindl, Les peintres flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siècle , Sterrebeek, 1983 (2nd ed.), pp. 124, 249, figs. 130, 360 (no. 26) and 362 (no. 131).
O. ter Kuile, Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst. The Netherlands Office for Fine Arts The Hague. Catalogue of Paintings by Artists Born before 1870. Volume VI. Seventeenth-century North Netherlandish Still Lifes , The Hague, 1985, pp. 50, figs. 33, 51, 116-7 (no. VI-27), 204 and 206.
F.G. Meijer, 'Book review of O. ter Kuile, Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst. The Netherlands Office for Fine Arts The Hague. Catalogue of Paintings by Artists Born before 1870. Volume VI. Seventeenth-century North Netherlandish Still Lifes', in Oud Holland, C, 1986, pp. 204-206.
I. Ember, et. al ., Niederländisch malerei des 17. Jahrhundert aus Budapest , exhibition catalogue, Cologne and Utrecht, Wallraf-Richartz Museum and Centraal Museum, 1987, p. 41, fig. 8 (entry by J. de Meyere).
H. Robels, Frans Snyders. Stilleben- und Tiermaler 1579-1657 , Munich, 1989, p. 164.
P. Huys Janssen, 'Schilders in Utrecht 1600-1700', in Historische Reeks Utrecht , XV, Utrecht, 1990, pp. 82-3, fig. 72.
F.G. Meijer, 'Book review of Exh. cat. A Prosperous Past. The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands 1600-1700', in Simiolus, XX, no. 1, 1990-1, pp. 91-8.
S. Segal, Jan Davidsz De Heem and his circle , exhibition catalogue, Utrecht, Centraal Museum and Brunswick, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, 1991, pp. 18, 38, 77, 139-41, and addendum p.2, no. 8 (German edition, no. 7A).
I. Schwartz , ‘” Niet hoe veel maer hoe eel” Symboliek en signaturen van Jan Davidszoon de Heem ’, in Vitrine, 1991 , pp. 13-17.
E. de Heer, F. Kuyvenhoven and E. Mijnlieff, Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst. The Netherlands Office for Fine Arts The Hague. Old Master Paintings. An Illustrated Summary Catalogue , The Hague, 1992, p. 134, no. 1085.
G.J.M. Weber, ‘Ausstellungen. Stilleben im goldenen Jahrhundert - Jan Davidsz de Heem und sein Kreis’, in Kunstchronik, XLV, no. 4, April 1992, pp. 149 and 161.
R. Trnek, Die holländischen Gemälde des 17. Jahrhunderts in der Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste in Wien , Vienna, Cologne and Weimar, 1992, p. 176.
P. Sutton and M.E. Wieseman, The Age of Rubens , exhibition catalogue, Boston, 1993, no. 112, pp. 541-3, illustrated (entry by M.E. Wieseman).
M.-L. Hairs, ‘Jan Davidsz. de Heem’ in Le dictionnaire des peintres belges du XIVe siècle à nos jours : depuis les premiers maîtres des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux et de la Principauté de Liège jusqu'aux artistes contemporains , Ph. Roberts-Jones, ed., Brussels, 1995, pp. 283-284.
P. Taylor, Dutch Flower Painting 1600-1720 , New Haven, 1995, p. 95, figs. 56, 160 and 213.
S. Segal, ‘Heem, de. Dutch family of painters’, in The Dictionary of Art, XIV, J. Turner, ed., London, 1996, pp. 288-291.
L.M. Helmus, De verzamelingen van het Centraal Museum Utrecht. 5. Schilderkunst tot 1850 , Utrecht, 1999, I, pp. 301-3; II, pp. 929-30.
K. Sidén, ed., Musiken I Konsten. Det klingande 1600-talet. Nationalmusei Årsbok, XLVII, Stockholm, 2001, no. 140-1.
M. Díaz Padrón, et. al ., Triumph of the sea: the riches of marine life in XVII-century European painting , Madrid, 2003, pp. 152-3.
F.G. Meijer, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Catalogue of the Collection of Paintings. The Collection of Dutch and Flemish Still-Life Paintings Bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward , Oxford and Zwolle, 2003, pp. 253-4, fig. 58.3.
J. de Meyere, Utrechtse schilderkunst in de Gouden Eeuw : honderd schilderijen uit de collectie van het Centraal Museum te Utrecht , Utrecht, 2006, pp. 213-5.
F.G. Meijer, ‘Jan Davidsz. de Heem’s Landscapes’, in Album Amicorum Marijke de Kinkelder. Collegiale bijdragen over landschappen, marines en architectuur , The Hague, 2013, pp. 253-270.
F.G. Meijer, Jan Davidsz. de Heem 1606-1684 , PhD dissertation, University of Amsterdam, 2016, I, pp. 216-7, 219-20, no. A 199, illustrated; II, pp. 222-224, no. A 199.
JAN DAVIDSZ. DE HEEM (UTRECHT 1606-1684 ANTWERP)
A banquet still life
signed 'J.D. de Heem' (lower centre, on the sheet of music)
oil on canvas
54 ¾ x 45 ¼ in. (139.2 x 115.1 cm.)
