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Still-life with dead game, lobster, vegetables, fruit and cat (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1579-1657

Title

Still-life with dead game, lobster, vegetables, fruit and cat (recto)

Date of Production

1595 - 1657

Medium

pen and brown ink, grey wash, with brown ink framing lines (recto), red chalk (verso), on buff laid paper, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 16.5 cm
Width: 27.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1551

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






Related Works

Still-life with fruit, lobster, dead game, a dog and a cat

Provenance

Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel (1585-1646) [as per inscription on mount]; Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris (1694-1774), L.1852; his estate sale, Basan (Paris), 15 November 1775 - 30 January 1776, lot 1039; purchased there by Pierre François Basan (1723-1797), for 22 livres; anonymous sale, C.G. Boerner (Leipzig), 11-12 November 1921, lot 47; Sotheby's (London), 17 - 18 April 1923, lot 19; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£2.75) Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1927

Literature

Rosenberg, Pierre et Choueiry, Marie-Liesse, Les dessins de la collection Mariette. Ecoles flamande, hollandaise et allemande, 2 vols., Paris 2022
vol. I, no. N 448 on p. 316
vol. I, ill. on p. 316 (recto)

Robels, Hella, Frans Snyders: Stilleben- und Tiermaler 1579-1657, Munich 1989
no. Z 28.

Greindl, Edith, Les peintres flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siècle, Sterrebeek 1983
no. 280, p. 380 ...More

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 48

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 130

Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1927, 1927
cat. no. 636 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: small crowned shield containing fleur-de-lis (no match in Churchill, Heawood or on Bernstein portal, Peter Bower had no further information).

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink: "Sneyders". Mount (removed, now in curatorial file), Recto: centre, graphite: 3; right centre, graphite: no. 19; lower left, graphite: 205; lower centre, graphite, circled: 55; lower right, graphite, circled, Witt number: 1551; lower left, on an added label, brown ink: Aus der Marietschen Samlung / sein Zeichen steht unter rechts; lower left edge, graphite: 87 From the Arundel Collection; lower right edge, brown ink: 1085. Verso: Engraved image, a copy of Louis Chéron's Baptism of the Eunuch etching of c.1690-1725.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Pierre-Jean Mariette (L.1852).

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