Lot Details
Lot 38
Circle of Abraham van Beyeren A Still Life of Shells, a Pewter Dish with Lobster, Roll, Roemer, Fruit and Knife on a Stone Table Cov...
A Still Life of Shells, a Pewter Dish with Lobster, Roll, Roemer, Fruit and Knife on a Stone Table Covered by a Draped Cloth
Oil on oak panel
15 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches (39.4 x 56.5 cm)
Provenance:
Kurt Benedict, Berlin, circa 1928 (as by Abraham Hendricksz van Beyeren)
N.V. Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam (as by Abraham Hendricksz van Beyeren)
Private collection, Amsterdam, circa 1935
Looted by the Nazi authorities after May 1940, who sent it to the looting bank of Lippman, Rosenthal & Co.
Acquired from the above by Dr. Kajetan Muhlmann, Feb. 24, 1942
In the custody of the Dutch Government after World War II
Restituted to the heirs of the pre-war owner, Amsterdam, 1950s
Thence by descent to a private collection, New York, until the present
Literature:
N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message, Schiedam, 1980, vol. I, pp. 135, 137, no. 195, fig. 178, illus., vol. II, p. 44, no. 195, fig. 178 (as by Evert Collyer, present whereabouts unknown)
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