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Still life with wine glass, lobster and oysters and fruits
71 x 89,5 cm (28 x 35 in)
Traces of signature lower left
Provenance:
European Fine Arts Gallery, 6 Lower Merrion Street, Dublin, Ireland, before 9 March 1984.
Lempertz, Cologne, auction, 20 November 1993, lot 990.
Private collection Upper Bavaria.
Private collection Munich.
Literature
Exactly this painting illustrated in Apollo, December 1983, page 62.
Certificates:
Original photo certificate by Ingvar Bergström, Gothenburg, 28 April 1983. After examining the original, Bergström describes the still life as a "quite interesting work by Marinus Nellius". He mentions the signature and the date 1671 and classifies it as an early work by the painter, in which he was influenced by Jan Davidsz. De Heem and Pieter de Ring. Bergström emphasises that the present painting is typical of Nellius in both composition and brushwork.
Certificate by Ellen Bernt, Munich, in copy dated 16 April 1983. Bernt also concludes that this is an "impeccable, characteristic and very early work by the Dutch still life painter Martinus Nellius".
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