Georg Flegel, studio of - FRUIT STILL LIFE WITH MOUSE AND STAG BEETLE - image-1

Lot 1216 Dα

Georg Flegel, studio of - FRUIT STILL LIFE WITH MOUSE AND STAG BEETLE

Auction 1020 - overview Cologne
16.11.2013, 00:00 - Ols Masters incl. The Rau Collection for UNICEF
Estimate: 15.000 € - 20.000 €
Result: 40.260 € (incl. premium)

Georg Flegel, studio of

FRUIT STILL LIFE WITH MOUSE AND STAG BEETLE

Oil on copper. 18.5 x 25 cm.

Georg Flegel was among the most renowned still life painters of the 17th century in Germany. Accordingly, his Frankfurt studio was arranged like a well organised business, with numerous changing pupils and employees (see: C. Grimm, op. cit.). The present work is likely to have been made here, as it displays a number of motifs typical of a group of Georg Flegel's small scale works: A mouse, a Chinese bowl with figs, dates, hazelnuts, walnuts, sweets and a rummer. The central work of this group is kept in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, and further similar compositions can be found in private collections (see: Ketelsen-Volkhardt op. cit., pg. 174-181).

Provenance

Private collection, Belgium.

Literature

For the studio cf: C. Grimm, see: Wie eigenhändig malte Flegel? In:K. Wettengl: Gerog Flegel, Stillleben 1999, p. 225 et seq.