Still Life

Still Life

SK-A-3944

signature, with ligated monogram, upper left, below the niche (false): ‘AVB f.’

Abraham van Beyeren (1620/21 - 1690). Still life, c. 1660. The Hague painter Van Beyeren has assembled a colourful assortment of objects and fruits. This type of luxurious still life was in fashion around 1650. Van Beyeren specialized in the genre, following in the footsteps of Jan Davidsz de Heem, who developed this type of still life. Purchased in 1958.

• painter: attributed to Abraham van Beyeren
• painter: Abraham van Beyeren (signed by artist) [rejected]

after 1655

olieverf op doek

• height 127 cm x width 106.5 cm x thickness 3.0 cm
• depth 10.5 cm

Purchased with the support of the Stichting Jubileumfonds Rijksmuseum

purchase 1958

Public domain

…; ? collection Baroness Marie Elbertine van Welderen Rengers, née van Pallandt (1902-1986), 't Reelaer Castle, Heino, near Raalte;{Note RMA.}…; sale, A. de Labrouhe de Laborderie (Paris), Amsterdam (F. Muller), 23 May 1922, no. 1, fl. 6,800;{Copy RKD.}…; ? the dealer Daniel Katz, Dieren;{Note RMA.}…; ? the dealer Eugene Slatter, London;{Note RMA.}…; purchased from William R. Drown, London, by the museum, through the mediation of the dealer D.A. Hoogendijk, with the support of the Jubileumfonds, 1958

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

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