Attributed to Isaak Soreau
Hanau, 1604 - Frankfurt am Main, after 1645
A Still Life of Apricots and Grapes in a 'Wan-li' porcelain Bowl
Oil on panel, the reverse stamped with the mark of the ‘Master with the Star’ and with remains of the stamp of the Antwerp Panel Makers Guild
H. 40,5 cm. W. 53 cm.
PROVENANCE
Anonymous sale; Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
With Gallery A. van der Meer, November 1963, as nr.8;
Anonymous sale, Philips, London, United Kingdom, 4 July 1989, lot 33;
Anonymous sale, Ader-Picard-Tajan, Hotel George V, Paris, France, 9 April 1990, as lot nr. 44, as by Jacob van Hulsdonck;
Anonymous sale, Tajan, Hotel George V, Paris, France, 20 December 2000, as by Jacob van Hulsdonck;
Private collection, Paris, France
LITERATURE
Weltkunst, vol. 33, no. 21, 1 November 1963, p. 10, with ill.;
Damme, J. van (1990). De Antwerpse tafereelmakers en hun merken: identificatie en betekenis. Antwerpen: Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, nr. 231 (as by Jacob van Hulsdonck)
REFERENCE LITERATURE
Willigen, A. van der & Meijer, F.G. (2003). A dictionary of Dutch and Flemish still-life painters working in oils. 1525-1725. Leiden: Primavera, p. 187 (as: Isaak Soreau)
CATALOGUE NOTE
Dr. Fred G. Meijer, former Curator Old Master Painting of the RKD, The Hague, states that the present painting is a free variation on a still life with the same composition by Jacob van Hulsdonck (sale Hotel Drouot, Paris, France, 4 July 1989, as lot nr. 280).