Auction House

Auction: Old Master Paintings

19. October 2016, 2:00 pm

Object overview
Object

0695

„Still life with grapes, peaches and a fly“
1690s
oil on canvas
35 × 27 cm
lower right (partly indistinctly signed): Rachel Ruysch
label on the reverse: AM 237

Provenance

Sale of the collection of Joan Hendrik van Heemskerk, Rietmulder, Den Haag, 29th-30th March 1770, lot 96;
Collection van der Vlugt;
art dealer Guy Stein, Paris, 1937;
private property, England, 1964-1976;
art dealer John Mitchell Fine Paintings, London, 1976;
private collection, Germany

Exhibition

1976 Drapers Guild Hall, London

Literature

Maurice Harold Grant, Rachel Ruysch 1664-1750, Leigh-on-Sea 1956, p. 41, cat.-no. 185;
John Mitchell & Son (Ed.), The inspiration of nature. Paintings of still life, flowers, birds and insects by Dutch and Flemish artists of the 17th century, exhibition catalogue, Drapers Guild Hall, London 1976, p. 44-45;
Marianne Berardi, Science into art. Rachel Ruysch's early development as a still-life painter, thesis, Pittsburgh 1998, p. 241-246, ill. 16, p. 434

Estimate: € 25.000 - 50.000
Result: € 74.240 (incl. fees)
Auction is closed.