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Lot 52*

Cornelis Kruys
(active Haarlem and Leiden 1644- died 1660)
A pewter jug with an overturned silver cup with fruit, bread and meat on a draped table-top

4 December 2019, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£25,000 - £35,000

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Cornelis Kruys (active Haarlem and Leiden 1644- died 1660)

A pewter jug with an overturned silver cup with fruit, bread and meat on a draped table-top
signed 'C:Krvis' (on tablecloth, lower left)
oil on panel
92.5 x 74.6cm (36 7/16 x 29 3/8in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Count Moltke Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark, early 19th century
With Van Diemen and Co., The Hague, by 1928
Sale, Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, 29 November 1931, lot 27
Benny Dessau, until his death in 1937 and thence by descent to his son
Elnar Dessau and thence by descent in the family until offered
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1998, lot 200
With Frances Aronson Fine Art, Atlanta, USA, where purchased by the present owner in 1999

Exhibited
Tulsa, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Old Master Dutch and Flemish Paintings, June 2002- May 2003

Literature
R. Warner, Dutch and Flemish Fruit and Flower Paintings of the XVII and XVIII Centuries, London, 1928, p. 128, ill. fig. 59b
N.R.A. Vroom, De schilders van het monochrome banketj, Amsterdam, 1945, cat. no. 112, ill., fig. 128
P. Gammelbo, Dutch Still-life Painting from the 16th to 18th Centuries in Danish Collections, Copenhagen, 1960, p. 52, under no. 55 (footnote)
N.R.A. Vroom, A modest message as intimated by the painters of the Monochrome Banketje, Schiedam, 1980, vol. I, p. 139, ill. fig. 184, vol. II, p. 45, no. 204

We are grateful to Dr. Fred Meijer for confirming the attribution to Cornelis Kruys upon examination of colour photographs.

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