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Ancient Painting of 1600 Master of the Flemish School anticSwiss 02/10/2021 05:29:16 http://www.anticswiss.com Ancient painting of 1600 master of the Flemish school. FOR SALE ANTIQUE DEALER Period: 17° secolo -1600 Laboratorio la Mole Torino Style: Alta epoca +39011 19 467 664 393357352986 Height:26cm Width:34cm Material:Olio su Tela Price:0€ DETAILED DESCRIPTION: Ancient painting of 1600 master of the Flemish school. Jan Davidsz. de Heem and workshop A shrimp, crabs with oranges and a lemon on a pewter plate on a draped table, oil on panel, 25.5 x 34 cm, framed. Provenance: - Private collection - Current owner - with Bernard Houtakker, Amsterdam, according to a label on the back; - sale, Sedelmeyer, Paris, 25-28 May 1907, lot 76 (as Jan Davidsz. de Heem); - with Hans Cramer, The Hague, 1975/76 - sale, Christie's, London, 14 December 1990, lot 292 (workshop of Jan Davidsz de Heem) From the studies carried out by Cav Renato Musetti, expert and expert in ancient paintings, the work can be attributed to Andrea Benedetti a close collaborator of the master Davidsz de Heem. During the period spent in de Heem's workshop, Benedetti refined his painting techniques by enriching them and often confusing them with the master to such an extent that in the past many works by Andrea Benedetti were exchanged with those of the master. BENEDETTI ANDREA. - Probably of Emilian origin (Modena? Parma?), He was born around 1615-18; he is mentioned for the first time in 1636 in Antwerp as a pupil of an obscure painter Vincenzo "Cernevael" (Carnival?), perhaps also an Italian, who seems to have induced the young man to follow him in Flanders. In 1638 Benedetti. He entered Antwerp in the studio of Jean de Heem, a famous still life painter, and in 1641 he was enrolled in his master in the guild of St. Luke. In 1649. It appears that Benedetti. he later left the Netherlands to go to Austria before returning to Italy, presumably around 1660. In the meantime he had established himself as an excellent painter of still lifes in the manner of de Heem, of which in fact he can be considered the main follower, both that his works are often confused with those of the master. They almost always represent grapes in a fruit bowl, silverware, musical instruments with an open motet book, etc. Everything can be seen on a table halfway covered by a rich oriental carpet. Often there is no lack of architectural elements of a monumental nature and a heavy draped curtain .. It is not clear where and when the painter died, who is generally counted among the masters of the Flemish school. A painting, composed in the manner described, in 1659 among the paintings owned by Grand Duke Leopold William of Austria (on canvas, 70 x 102 cm), is now preserved in the 1 / 4 anticSwiss 02/10/2021 05:29:16 http://www.anticswiss.com Vienna Museum. Seven years earlier, in 1652, a small "banquet" (on wood) was part of the legacy of the painter V. Wolfvoet, a schoolboy from Rubens, who died in Antwerp that year. The fact that several of B.'s paintings are in Italy suggests that he spent the last years of his life there. In the Galleria Estense in Modena there is a nice "refreshment" by his hand (rep. In Dedalo, IV, p. 607). Two of his paintings are preserved in the Pinacoteca di Parma (n. 263 and 269, already attributed to Jan Heda, Dutch). Another still, signed with the usual acronym, now disappeared, is in Rome in the National Gallery of Ancient Art in Palazzo Corsini: Still life with the lobster (inv. N. 944). An excellent essay of the art of B. is then a large still life, signed, in the Budapest Gallery (rep. In Dedalo, IV, p. 608); signed was the one in the HG Winkier collection in Hamburg, sold in public auction in 1888: Lobster and fruit with a lute. Jan Davidsz. de Heem (Utrecht, 20 April 1606 - Antwerp, 1683 or 1684) was a Dutch painter. Still life painter, he was probably a pupil of Balthasar van der Ast in Utrecht and David Bailly in Leiden. From 1635/1636 he resided permanently in Antwerp, where he obtained the rights of a citizen. However, he traveled repeatedly, with a long stay in Utrecht between 1669 and 1672. A fundamental figure of the still life painting in Holland of the golden century, the vanitas genre began, still lifes with allusions to the transience of existence, particularly popular in Leiden. In Antwerp he was influenced by the local baroque (Frans Snyders, Jan Fyt), abandoning Dutch austerity in favor of a richer composition and color scheme. In fact, against the backdrop of planks, they staged sumptuously together, where the objects are represented with a strong sense of the individual material component of each one, from flowers to fruit, up to crockery and metal. He was an example to a group of students and followers. The work is accompanied by the expertise of Cav. Renato Musetti, expert and expert in ancient paintings, https://www.anticswiss.com/en/fine-art-antiques/ancient-painting-of-1600-master-of-the-flemish-school--18213 2 / 4 anticSwiss 02/10/2021 05:29:16 http://www.anticswiss.com Gallery 3 / 4 anticSwiss 02/10/2021 05:29:16 http://www.anticswiss.com 4 / 4 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org).
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