LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

12.20 in. (31.00 cm.) (height) by 20.42 in. (51.88 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated 'Ju° vander hamen fat. 1629' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Amsterdam, Historisch Museum, Kunsthandelaar en verzamelaar (Art dealer and collector), 27 March-31 May 1970, no. 30. Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum; Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Spanish Still-Life Painting in the Golden Age, 1600-1650, 11 May-3 November 1985, no. 21. London, National Gallery, Spanish Still-Life from Velázquez to Goya, 22 February-21 May 1995, no. 15. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999-2018, on loan. Madrid, Palacio Real; Dallas, Meadows Museum, Juan van der Hamen y Leo´n & the Court of Madrid, 24 October 2005-28 May 2006, no. 53.

Literature:

R.T. Martín, La naturaleza muerta en la pintura española, Barcelona, 1971, p. 56. E. Valdivieso, 'Un bodegón inédito de Juan van der Hamen', Archivo Español de Arte, XLVIII, 1975, pp. 402-403, fig. 7. B.S. Myers, Encyclopedia of World Art: Supplement: World art in our time, XVI, New York, 1983, p. 186. E. Harris, 'Exhibition Reviews: London, National Gallery, Spanish still life', Burlington Magazine, CXXXVII, 1995, p. 331, fig. 44. W.B. Jordan, An Eye on Nature: Spanish still-life paintings from Sanchez Cotán to Goya, London, 1997, pp. 60 and 63. V.G. Powell, C. Ressort, et al., Musée du Louvre. Département des Peintures. Catalogue: écoles espagnole et portugaise, Paris, 2002, p. 380. L. Ramón-Laca and F. Scheffler, 'Juan van der Hamen y el Gusto Foráneo por las Flores', in M.C. Bravo, ed., El arte foráneo en España: presencia e influencia, Madrid, 2005, p. 361, note 4.

Provenance:

Dr. Fritz Rosenberg (1890-1973), Boulder, CO, and by whom sold Anonymous sale; Parke-Bernet, New York, 12 March 1969, lot 28, where acquired by Herman Shickman.