Alexander Adriaenssen

Still Life with oysters, bread, a knife, drinking vessels and a caster

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May 25, 03:13 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker

Alexander Adriaenssen

1587 - 1661

Still Life with oysters, bread, a knife, drinking vessels and a caster

oil on panel

panel: 17 by 24 in.; 43.2 by 61 cm.

framed: 26 by 32.5 in.; 66 by 82.6 cm.

Anonymous sale, Paris, Chevallier, 25 May 1907, lot 20 (as Willem Claesz. Heda);

Anonymous sale, Frankfurt, Bangel, 17 May 1927, lot 20 (as Heda);

Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 8 May 1928, lot 29 (as Heda);

With Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam/London, 1928;

With Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, inv. 2 (cat. XXXVI, 1929), 1929 - 1933 (as Osias Beert, inv. no. 2122);

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 24 November 1950;

Anonymous sale, Brussels, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, 22 October 1951, lot 66 (as Beert);

Restituted to the sole heir of Jacques Goudstikker, May 2005.

Amsterdam, Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker, Het Stilleven Heerengracht 458/472, 18 February - 19 March 1933, no. 9 (as Osias Beert).

Alexander Adriaenssen was the son of famous composer and lutenist, Emmanuel Adriaenssen and had success as a still life painter in his native Antwerp. He knew Peter Paul Rubens personally, and the latter bought two of Adriaenssen's works for his own collection; Rubens's first wife Isabella Brandt was godmother to one of the still life painter's children. Adriaenssen, who was also skilled in painting coats of arms, worked under Rubens on the decorations for the Joyous Entry of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand into Antwerp in 1635.