Still Life by LAURENS CRAEN (1620–1670)

Still Life with a Passglass and a Römer, surrounded by vine leaves arranged on an entablature covered with a cloth, alongside a brazier, tobacco, a lemon, and a pewter plate on which oranges are placed, and a pipe. An inscription reads “R…] Taback / I…] / H.” (center, toward the left, on the tobacco paper).

PROVENANCE

Possibly with R. H. Ward, London, in 1932 (according to the 1932 exhibition catalogue, op. cit. infra).
Possibly with D. A. Hoogendijk & Co., Amsterdam, in 1932 (according to the 1932 exhibition catalogue, op. cit. infra).
With A. S. Drey, London, Munich, and New York, in 1932 (according to the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History).
With Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York, in 1941 (according to documentation from the Frick Collection).
With S. Hartveld, New York (according to documentation from the Frick Collection):
Acquired from him by S. and Mary van Berg, New York, in 1947 (according to documentation from the Frick Collection).
Private collection, Switzerland (according to the 1980 exhibition catalogue, op. cit. infra).
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, London, November 30, 1983, lot 83 (as Hubert van Ravesteyn, signed with his monogram).
With Schwarz Fine Paintings, Philadelphia, in 2002 (according to the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History).
With Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts, New York, 2007–2009.

LITERATURE

N. R. A. Vroom, De schilders van het monochrome banketje, Amsterdam, 1945, p. 122, no. 107 (as Laurens Craen), reproduced in black and white p. 123.
A. van Berg, The van Berg Collection of Paintings, New York, 1947, p. 48 (as Laurens Craen), reproduced in black and white p. 49.
B. R. A. Vroom, A Modest Message as Intimated by the Painters of the “Monochrome Banketje”, Schiedam, 1980, I, p. 241, no. 199, fig. 326, reproduced in black and white p. 242, fig. 326; II, p. 44, no. 199 (as signed).
S. Segal, “Still-lifes by Middelburg painters, Laurens Craen,” in Masters of Middelburg. Exhibition in the Honour of Laurens J. Bol [exh. cat.], Amsterdam, 1984, p. 83, under note no. 1 (as Laurens Craen).

EXHIBITED

Possibly Amsterdam, D. A. Hoogendijk & Co., Zeldzame meesters uit de 17de eeuw, June 15–July 16, 1932, no. 19 (as Laurens Craen, signed at upper right) (according to N. R. A. Vroom, 1980, op. cit. infra).
New York, Mortimer Brandt Gallery, November 22–December 20, 1941 (according to documentation from the Frick Collection).
London, Marshall Spink Ltd., An Exhibition of Three Centuries of Flower and Still-life Painting, 1600–1900, November 19, 1980–January 28, 1981, no. 8 (as Hubert van Ravesteyn).
New York, Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts, Portraits and Other Recent Acquisitions, 2008, no. 12 (as Laurens Craen).