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Frans Ykens (Antwerp 1601-1693 Brussels), and Studio A table-top still life with platters of oysters, lobster and various fruit and vegetables with a young couple standing before a red curtain image 1

Lot 35^*,TP

Frans Ykens
(Antwerp 1601-1693 Brussels)
and Studio
A table-top still life with platters of oysters, lobster and various fruit and vegetables with a young couple standing before a red curtain

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4 December 2024, 14:00 GMT

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Frans Ykens (Antwerp 1601-1693 Brussels), and Studio

A table-top still life with platters of oysters, lobster and various fruit and vegetables with a young couple standing before a red curtain
oil on canvas
152.2 x 186cm (59 15/16 x 73 1/4in).

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Provenance
Private Collection, Belgium for at least 80 years

This opulent still life depicts a banquet table with dishes and pewter plates laden with a variety of fruit, vegetables, oysters and lobster before a sumptuous draped red curtain. An elegant, young couple is shown admiring the tablescape and many of the items spread before them may allude to their betrothal: marital love, fidelity and fertility are symbolised by the basket of apricots, the lemon, split pomegranate and vase of roses; oysters as a powerful aphrodisiac; and prosperity is suggested by the lobster and crayfish.

Frans Ykens was apprenticed to his uncle, Osias Beert and became a master in the Guild of Saint Luke, Antwerp in 1630. Although best known for his highly refined garland still life paintings, through his long career he worked in various styles and formats. The present work is clearly influenced by the rich, large, brightly coloured still lifes by artists such as Frans Snyders.

We are grateful to Dr Fred Meijer for confirming the attribution to Frans Ykens and studio and for suggesting a date of the 1650s. He believes it is possible that the figures are by a different hand but cannot exclude that they are by Ykens, as is the case in the work offered at Galerie Georges Giroux, Brussels, 11 March 1929 (RKD image 727327).

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