ARTUS CLAESSENS (ACTIF À ANVERS DE 1625 À 164... Lot n° 46

Still life with lobster and parrot Canvas (restorations). H_79 cm W_123 cm Provenance: - At Bertil Rapp's, Stockholm, in 1953 (17th-century Frankfurt school) - Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 14 December 1977, no. 257, reproduced, (17th-century Dutch school) - At Jeff Leegenhoek's, Paris in 1978. - Acquired around 1980 by the present owner. Bibliography: E. Greindl, Les peintres flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siècle, Sterrebeek, 1983, p.87, reproduced fig 51. Artus Claessens was an Antwerp painter registered as a master in the registers of the Corporation of Painters in 1625. His style is close to that of Frans Snyders and Clara Peeters. His still lifes are rich in various objects and animals. We can relate this painting to those sold on 21 September 2012 at Koller in Zurich, no. 3045, and on 21 April 1993 at Sotheby's in London, no. 300. The attribution has been confirmed on photograph by Fred Meijer.