Still Life with a Stoneware Jug, Playing Cards, and Smoking Implements
Jan Fris
(Dutch, about 1627–1672)
1665
Medium/TechniqueOil on panel
Dimensions49 × 42 cm (19 5/16 × 16 9/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art
Accession number2021.151
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPaintings
Inscriptionslower right on ledge: J. Fris. 1665Provenance1884, Étienne Martin, Baron de Beurnonville (b. 1825 - d. 1906), Paris; June 3, 1884, Beurnonville sale, 3 Rue Bayard, Paris, lot 238, sold for fr. 150 to Eugene Féral, Paris. Paul Mantz (b. 1821 – d. 1895), Paris; May 10-11, 1895, posthumous Mantz sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 27 [see note 1]. April 15, 1983, anonymous (“various properties”) sale, Christie’s, London, lot 21, sold. 1983, David Koetser Gallery, Zurich. By 1984, Noortman and Brod Gallery, London and Maastricht. 1984, acquired by a private collection, Germany; May 12, 2012, anonymous (German private collection) sale, Lempertz, Cologne, lot 1286, to Johnny Van Haeften (dealer), London [see note 2]; January 28, 2021, anonymous (consigned by Van Haeften) sale, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 37, bought in; 2021, sold by Sotheby’s to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 14, 2021)
NOTES:
[1] As by P. [sic] Fris. The painting as described in the 1884 and 1895 sales matches the present composition and is signed and dated 1665; their dimensions are recorded as 48 x 39 and 47 x 38 cm, slightly smaller than the present painting (49 x 42). [2] The anonymous consignor to the 2021 auction is said to have purchased the painting at Lempertz in 2012. In the intervening years, the dealer Johnny Van Haeften advertised the painting on the gallery’s web site and in publications such as the handbook of the British Antique Dealers Association, so it is likely that he purchased it in 2012 and sold it in 2021.
NOTES:
[1] As by P. [sic] Fris. The painting as described in the 1884 and 1895 sales matches the present composition and is signed and dated 1665; their dimensions are recorded as 48 x 39 and 47 x 38 cm, slightly smaller than the present painting (49 x 42). [2] The anonymous consignor to the 2021 auction is said to have purchased the painting at Lempertz in 2012. In the intervening years, the dealer Johnny Van Haeften advertised the painting on the gallery’s web site and in publications such as the handbook of the British Antique Dealers Association, so it is likely that he purchased it in 2012 and sold it in 2021.
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