Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff
Ernst Stuven
Still life of grapes, peaches, apricots, pears, walnuts and chestnuts, with a squirrel, on a ledge partially draped with a red cloth in a ruined stone niche
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Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff
Ernst Stuven
Hamburg 1660–1712 Rotterdam
Still life of grapes, peaches, apricots, pears, walnuts and chestnuts, with a squirrel, on a ledge partially draped with a red cloth in a ruined stone niche
signed lower right: E Stùven
oil on canvas
unframed: 83.1 x 66.8 cm.; 32¾ x 26¼ in.
framed: 103.7 x 87 cm.; 40⅞ x 34¼ in.
Anonymous sale (‘The Property of a Private Collector’), London, Sotheby’s, 3 July 1996, lot 38, for £47,700;
Subsequently acquired by Dr Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005);
Thence by inheritance.
Vic sur Seille, Musée départemental Georges de la Tour, Un cabinet imaginaire, natures mortes et vanités du XVIIème siècle, 10 May – 4 September 2005;
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, on loan until March 2025.
G. Diss and L. Turnherr, Un cabinet imaginaire, natures mortes et vanités du XVIIème siècle, exh. cat., Vic sur Seille 2005, pp. 36–37, reproduced in colour.
A broadly similar composition, equally displaying an arrangement of fruit with a squirrel and partly framed within a stone niche, was with Ralph Gierhards Antique and Fine Art, Düsseldorf, in 2008.1
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