Old Master & 19th Century Paintings and Sculpture Evening Auction

Old Master & 19th Century Paintings and Sculpture Evening Auction

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 23. Still life with a roemer and a knife atop a cut wheel of cheese, a stoneware Siegburg jug, a bread roll and two crossed herrings on a pewter plate, all upon a wooden tabletop.

Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff

Gottfried von Wedig

Still life with a roemer and a knife atop a cut wheel of cheese, a stoneware Siegburg jug, a bread roll and two crossed herrings on a pewter plate, all upon a wooden tabletop

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Live auction begins on:

July 1, 06:00 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff


Gottfried von Wedig

Cologne 1583–1641

Still life with a roemer and a knife atop a cut wheel of cheese, a stoneware Siegburg jug, a bread roll and two crossed herrings on a pewter plate, all upon a wooden tabletop


oil on single-plank oak panel

unframed: 34.1 x 44.2 cm.; 13⅜ x 17⅜ in.

framed: 56.6 x 66.7 cm.; 22¼ x 26¼ in.

Private collection, by circa 1900;

With Jack Kilgore, New York, by 1995;

Subsequently acquired by Dr Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005);

Thence by inheritance.

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum and Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Gottfried von Wedig. Stilleben und Portraits, 10 October 1998 – 10 January 1999; 24 January – 11 April 1999, no. 5;

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, on long-term loan until 2025.

A. Grondman, Sal Meijer. Zo naïef nog niet, Amsterdam 1986, pp. 62–63, no. 66 (as anonymous, 17th century, likely a copy);

K. Wettengl, 'Gottfried von Wedig als Stillebenmaler', in Gottfried von Wedig, 1583–1641, Stilleben und Porträts, E. Mai (ed.), exh. cat., Cologne 1998, pp. 21–23 and 25;

E. Mai, in Gottfried von Wedig, 1583–1641, Stilleben und Porträts, E. Mai (ed.), exh. cat., Cologne 1998, p. 38, under no. 1;

K. Wettengl, in Gottfried von Wedig, 1583–1641, Stilleben und Porträts, E. Mai (ed.), exh. cat., Cologne 1998, pp. 46–47, no. 5, reproduced in colour p. 47 and front cover. 

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