Pieter CLAESZ
(1597-1660)

A Vanitas with an oil lamp, a pocket watch, an open song book, an overturned roemer, a gilded covered cup and sea shells, all arranged on a table draped with a green cloth
1629

Oil on Panel.
35.5 x 63cm.
Signed with monogram and Dated lower right: PC/ A 1629
Clover leaf maker’s mark of Michael Claessens (active 1590-1637) on reverse of the panel.

Provenance:
Collection Abbé Verreecken.
Anonymous sale, Stockholm, Bukowski, 24-25 Septembre 1929, n°32.
With P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1931.
Collection Madame Herz van Rappard.

Littérature:
N.R.A: Vroom, De Schilders van het Monochrome Banketje, Amsterdam 1945, pp. 40 and 198, no. 20, reproduit fig. 26 (Pieter Claesz, daté 1623).
N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message as intimated by the painters of the “Monochrome Banketje”, Schiedam 1980, vol. I, pp. 25, 93, and 97, reproduced figs 17 and 136, vol. II pp. 16 and 101, 42 and 505, (as Clara Peeters or Pieter Claesz, datable to 1623).
N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message as intimated by the painters of the “Monochrome Banketje”, Schiedam 1999, vol. III, supplement, D.M. Klinger (ed.), pp. 136 and 153, reproduced fig. 105 (as Clara Peeters or Pieter Claesz).