Jan van Kessel the Elder - Large Still Life with a Lobster, Birds, Fruit, and Renaissance Goblets - image-1

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Jan van Kessel the Elder - Large Still Life with a Lobster, Birds, Fruit, and Renaissance Goblets

Auction 1141 - overview Cologne
16.11.2019, 11:00 - Paintings and Drawings 15th - 19th C.
Estimate: 20.000 € - 25.000 €
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Jan van Kessel the Elder

Large Still Life with a Lobster, Birds, Fruit, and Renaissance Goblets

Oil on canvas (relined). 85.5 x 114 cm.
Monogrammed to the edge below the plate with the lobster: VK (conjoined) f..

For the figures that populate large-format works such as this still life, Jan van Kessel the Elder often relied upon the help of specialised colleagues such as Erasmus Quellinus and Jan Boeckhorst (cf. Ertz/Nitze-Ertz 2012, p. 286, no. 456 & 457). However, the author of the figure in the present work has not yet been indentified.
Jan van Kessel was born in Antwerp and belonged to a famous dynasty of painters. As a grandson of Jan Brueghel the Elder and nephew of both Jan Brueghel the Younger and David Teniers the Younger, Jan van Kessel was influenced more by his famous grandfather and uncles than by his teacher Simon de Vos.
He became a member of the Antwerp guild of Saint Luke in 1645 and specialised in detailed studies of insects and allegorical scenes such as allegories of the four elements, the five senses or the continents of the earth, as well as still lifes such as the present work. According to Dr. Klaus Ertz, this large-format piece can be dated to the 1660s.

Certificate

Dr. Klaus Ertz, Lingen, 20.10.2017.