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Hendrick van Streeck

Still life with a quince, orange and other fruit on a partly draped ledge with Chinese porcelain and a glass of wine

Lot Closed

July 7, 01:44 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Hendrick van Streeck

Amsterdam 1659 - 1720

Still life with a quince, orange and other fruit on a partly draped ledge with Chinese porcelain and a glass of wine

signed upper left: H. v Streeck / F.

oil on canvas

unframed: 40.3 x 33.2 cm.; 15⅞ x 13 in.

framed: 60.5 x 53 cm.; 23⅞ x 20⅞ in.

With Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam, by whom sold in 1955 to
F.C. Butôt (1906–1992), Sankt Gilgen, Lake Wolfgang, Austria;
From whom acquired by Egon Rusche, Oelde;
Thence by inheritance to Herr Dr Thomas Rusche, Oelde;
His sale (‘Property from the SØR Rusche Collection’), London, Sotheby's, 1 May 2019, lot 219, where acquired.

Niederländisches Kunst aus dem Goldenen Jahrhundert – Gemälde und Zeichnungen im Umkreis grosser Meister aus der Sammlung F.C. Butôt, exh. cat., Salzburg 1972, pp. 142–43, reproduced;
Hollandse en Vlaamse kunst uit de 17e eeuw: hoogtepunten van minder bekende meesters: schilderijen en tekeningen uit de verzameling F.C. Butôt, exh. cat., Rotterdam 1973, pp. 146–47, reproduced;
W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Maler und Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1979, vol. III, reproduced fig. 1218;
L.J. Bol, G. Keyes and F.C. Butôt, Netherlandish paintings and drawings from the collection of F.C. Butôt by little-known and rare masters of the seventeenth century, London 1981, p. 50, no. 8, reproduced;
L.J. Bol, Holländische Malerei nahe den grossen Meistern. Landschaften und Stilleben, Brunswick 1982, p. 329;
E. Gemar-Költzsch et al., Holländische Stillebenmaler im 17. Jahrhundert, Lingen 1995, vol. II, p. 966, no. 379/3;
H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 5, Stilleben und Tierstücke, Münster/ Hamburg/ London 2004, p. 228–31, no. 51, reproduced in colour;
W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M. J. Bok et al., At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 91, reproduced in colour fig. 82.

This is a relatively rare painting within the œuvre of Hendrick van Streek, who studied with Emmanuel de Witte and, like his master, painted mainly church interiors, the quality of which was such that many of these works were mistaken for those of his master. He began by studying under his father Juriaen van Streeck, however, who specialised in still lifes, and the present work must owe its origins to this early training.

This painting was formerly owned by Frans C. Butôt, urbane Dutch tobacco merchant and collector of Dutch and Flemish ‘petit maîtres’, who put together a choice and fascinating group of pictures that in turn influenced the collecting tastes of Egon and Thomas Rusche, who were proud to seek out and acquire ‘the best of the smallest’, not only in terms of quality, but also of condition.