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The Property of a Former Minister of The Netherlands

Cornelis de Heem

Still life with a crayfish on a pewter dish, a peeled lemon, an orange, bunches of green and black grapes and other fruit on a draped ledge

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Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

The Property of a Former Minister of The Netherlands

Cornelis de Heem

Leiden 1631–1695 Antwerp

Still life with a crayfish on a pewter dish, a peeled lemon, an orange, bunches of green and black grapes and other fruit on a draped ledge

signed lower right: C. DE. HEEM. F.

oil on oak panel

unframed: 29.1 x 37.9 cm.; 11½ x 14⅞ in.

framed: 44.6 x 53.7 cm.; 17⅝ x 21⅛ in.

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, C.F. Roos & Cie., 29 October 1912, lot 60;

With S. Nijstad Gallery, The Hague, by 1972;

From whom acquired by the father of the present owner in October 1972.

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