Property from a British Private Collection
Flemish School, last quarter of the 17th century
The spoils of war: an allegorical still life of armour, weapons, instruments and symbols of vanitas, a city beyond
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Property from a British Private Collection
Flemish School, last quarter of the 17th century
The spoils of war: an allegorical still life of armour, weapons, instruments and symbols of vanitas, a city beyond
monogrammed at centre, on the pages of the book: NMF; indistinctly inscribed and dated at centre, on the cover of the book: [...] KEN / VAN / 167 […]
oil on canvas
unframed: 89.4 x 119 cm.; 35¼ x 46⅞ in.
framed: 105.8 x 135.5 cm.; 41⅝ x 53⅜ in.
Anonymous sale ('Property from a Private Collection, West Coast'), New York, Sotheby's, 22 May 2019, lot 29, for $68,750;
Where acquired by the present owner.
An alternative attribution to François van Aken (act. Antwerp 1667–after 1714) has been suggested on account of the inscription on the cover of the book at centre. The same inscription is found on another version of this composition, of inferior quality, offered in these rooms in 2011.1 It appears more likely, however, that the KEN previously read REKEN (reckoning): a common inscription on vanitas still lifes.
We are grateful to Dr Fred G. Meijer for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.
1 London, Sotheby's, 14 April 2011, lot 89; oil on canvas, 93.1 x 123.8 cm.
