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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.488
People
Willem Claesz. Heda, Dutch (1594-1680)
Title
Still Life with Ham
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1643
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342181

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
50 × 68.3 cm (19 11/16 × 26 7/8 in.)
frame: 69.1 x 88.1 cm (27 3/16 x 34 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left of cradle, black stencil: TV795 [Christie's number]
  • seal: center right of cradle, red wax: BV [encircled, chess knight atop monogram]
  • label: cradle, lower left, square with black printed text: Tentoonstelling / "HET STILLEVEN" / Kunsthandel / J. GOUDSTIKKER N.V. / Amsterdam / 18 Febr. t/m 26 Maart 1933 / No. [illegible]
  • label: cradle, upper left: [printed:] B.H. No. [handwritten, black ink:] 1181 / W. C. HEDA / READY.FOR.A. FEAST / £LEE
  • label: upper left, on frame, printed text: 29
  • label: cradle, upper right, serrated edge, blue border, blue pencil: 3 [cut off]
  • label: upper left, frame: [printed:] GANDER & WHITE / Client: [handwritten, black ballpoint:] L11351 / Brooke / [printed:] Item No: [handwritten:] #1
  • inscription: lower right: Heda 1643
  • inscription: verso, center, white chalk, erased: 556 [illegible text]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Wilhelmus Josephus Rudolphus van Dreesman (d. 1954), Amsterdam, by 1926 until at least 1945. [1] [2] Dr. Anton C. R. Dreesman (d. 2000), [3] sold [through Christie's, Amsterdam, April 2002, lot 556]. [Richard Green, London, circa 2002]. [Johnny van Haeften, London, 2004-2006], sold; to Peter and Anne Brooke, 2006, by descent; to Samuel R. Brooke, Peter W. Brooke and John F. Brooke, 2020, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

Notes
[1] 1926 exhibition catalogue lists Dreesman as the owner and the 1945 publication "De Schilders van het Monochrome Banketje" lists Dreesman as the owner.

[2] It is possible that the painting was sold through Mak Van Waay, Amsterdam, on May 1, 1974 as lot 71. However, we have not been able to confirm the work is this version.

[3] Dr. Anton C. R. Dreesman is the grandson of Wilhelmus Josephus Rudolphus van Dreesman.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Samuel R. Brooke, Peter W. Brooke and John F. Brooke in memory of Peter A. Brooke and Anne F. Brooke
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.488
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Nederlandsche stillevens uit vijf eeuwen: Catalogus van de Tentoonstelling, exh. cat., Haags Gemeentemuseum (The Hague, 1926), p. 34, cat. no. 25
  • Catalogus der Tentoonstelling 'Het Stilleven', exh. cat., Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker (Amsterdam, 1933), cat. no. 131, repr. as no. 22
  • Nicolaas Rudolph Alexander Vroom, De Schildres van het Monochrome Banketje, N. V. Uitgevers-Mij (Amsterdam, 1945), p. 84, p. 213, no. 205, repr. as plate 68
  • Openbare Verkoping van Schilderijen Door Oude Meesters, auct. cat., Mak van Waay (Amsterdam, May 1, 1974), pp. 23-24, lot 71, repr. p. 24
  • Nicolaas Rudolph Alexander Vroom, A Modest Message as Intimated by the Painters of the Monochrome, Interbook International B.V. (Schiedam, 1980), p. 76, cat. no. 369a, repr.
  • A Dutch Treat: Selections of XVII and XVIII Century Dutch Art from the Collection of A. C. R. Dreesman, a Bicentennial Celebration of Relations between the United States and the Netherlands, exh. cat., Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame, Indiana, 1982), pp. 16, 54, cat. no. 6, repr. p. 16
  • The Dr. Anton C. R. Dreesman Collection: Dutch Pictures and Works of Art Including Silver..., auct. cat., Christie's, Amsterdam (Amsterdam, April 16, 2002), lot 556, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Het Nederlandsch Stilleven, Haags Gemeentemuseum, 02/27/1926 - 03/31/1926
  • Het Stilleven, Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker, 02/18/1933 - 03/19/1933
  • 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 11/05/2015

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