Possibly Antwerp | First quarter of the 17th Century | Ca. 1600/10
A Still Life with Fruit on plates, a Flute Glasses with Wine and a stoneware Jug on a wooden Table Top
Oil on panel
H. 47 cm. W. 71,5 cm.
PROVENANCE
Private collection | France
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. 32
EXPERTISE
With a dendrochronological analysis by Prof. Dr Peter Klein (dated 24 October 2025), according to which the wood of this panel used at the earliest from 1598 upwards, supporting a date in the first quarter of the 17th centurty.
CATALOGUE NOTE
The present work displays the influence of Osias Beert I, who was active in Antwerp, where he became an apprentice with Andries van Baesrode I in 1596 and master in the Guild of Saint Luke in 1602. He is only known as a painter of flowers and fruits, his works are rarely signed or monogrammed and never dated. The stylistic similarities combined with the dendrochronological analysis supports an origin in Antwerp in the first quarter of the 17th century, ca, 1600 – 1610.