Breakfast Piece

Pieter Claesz. (Dutch, about 1597–1660)

1630

Medium/TechniqueOil on panel

Dimensions46 × 68.6 cm (18 1/8 × 27 in.)
Framed: 70.5 × 90.2 cm (27 3/4 × 35 1/2 in.)

Credit LinePromised gift of Susan and Matthew Weatherbie, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art

Accession numberL-R 79.2021

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ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Europe

ProvenancePrivate collection, Sussex, England [see note 1]. 1960, Leonard Koetser (dealer), London [see note 2]. Private collection, England. By 1980, private collection, Geneva [see note 3]. By 1992, David Koetser Gallery, Zurich; March 1994, sold by Koetser to Susan and Matthew Weatherbie, Boston.

NOTES:
[1] Information about the English private collections was provided by David Koetser Gallery at the time of sale.

[2] Included in the Exhibition of Fine Old Master Paintings of the Dutch, Flemish and other Schools (Leonard Koetser, London, November 7 - December 7, 1960), cat. no. 14.

[3] N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message as Intimated by the Painters of the "Monochrome Banketje" (Schiedam, 1980), vol. 2, p. 40, cat. no. 176.