Maerten Boelema de Stomme, 1611 - um 1664, zug.

Maerten Boelema de Stomme,
1611 - ca. 1664 , attributed

STILL LIFE WITH WART BEAKER, SILVER TAZZA, LEMON AND KNIFE

Oil on panel.
61 x 48.5 cm.
Verso printed label “STAEDELIJKE MUSEA GOUDA” with handwritten entry “Claesz Heda, with inv. no. 55 500, R. Rombach Arts, Gouda; 23 February 1964.” Label printed on the frame: “SCHLOSS FUSCHL -Collection” with coat of arms and picture title “Stillleben mit Römer und Zitrone” (still life with Roemer beaker and lemon).

The painting’s colouration already reveals the painter’s affiliation to the group that excelled in “monochromatic still life painting”. From the 1630s onwards, these included above all Pieter Claesz (1596/98-1660) and Willem Claesz Heda (1594-1680/82). The arrangements in these still lifes are always extremely elegant and limited to a few objects with iconographic significance.

Provenance:
J. Rombach collection, Amsterdam, (Pieter Claesz attributed, ca. 1961).
Galerie D.Vaarties, Rotterdam, after 1961.
Christie’s Amsterdam, May 2005, lot 46.
Dorotheum, Vienna, October 2016, lot 73.