Peter Binoit - Still Life with Grapes in a Porcelain Dish, Peaches, Melons, and Snails - image-1

Lot 1024 Dα

Peter Binoit - Still Life with Grapes in a Porcelain Dish, Peaches, Melons, and Snails

Auction 1108 - overview Cologne
16.05.2018, 11:00 - Old Master Paintings and Drawings, Sculpture
Estimate: 20.000 € - 30.000 €
Result: 18.600 € (incl. premium)

Peter Binoit

Still Life with Grapes in a Porcelain Dish, Peaches, Melons, and Snails

Oil on panel. 59 x 82 cm.

Peter Binoit was born in Cologne, but is thought to have been a pupil of Daniel Soreau in Hanau, like Sebastian Stoskopff. He was related to Soreau and married his niece in 1627. Binoit made his earliest signed and dated painting in 1611. Early in his career he appears to have specialised in floral still lifes, but began enriching his compositions with fruit in around 1616. This painting combines an opulent arrangement of fruit with two snails in the foreground and a bird perching in a window in the upper left corner. A similar work dated 1619 was sold by Christie's in London in 2006 (7.7.2006, lot 191), indicating that this painting can also be dated to around this time.
We would like to thank Fred Meijer for confirming the attribution to this artist.