Still Life, Abraham van Beijeren, c. 1660 - 1690

…; ? sale, Dowager Countess André Mniszech, Paris (H. Baudoin), 10 May 1910, no. 23 (‘Le Vidrecome, 62 x 52 cm [size prior to restoration]’), fr. 6,000;…; the dealer Franz Kleinberger, Paris;{I. Németh, ‘Still Lifes by Abraham van Beijeren in the Former Collection of Marcell Nemes’, in O. Radványi, J. Tátrai and A. Varga (eds.), _Geest en gratie: Essays Presented to Ildikó Ember on her Seventieth Birthday_, Budapest 2012, pp. 40-43, esp. pp. 41, 43, note 18.} from whom purchased by Marczell de Nemes (1866-1930), Munich and Budapest, 1912;{According to the catalogue for the sale, Marczell de Nemes, Paris (F. Lair-Dubreuil et al.), 17 June 1913, the painting formed part of the travelling exhibition of Marczell de Nemes’s collection in Düsseldorf in 1912. As it was not yet being shown in similar exhibitions in Budapest and Munich in 1911 and 1912, De Nemes probably acquired it at a later moment in 1912 (see H. von Tschudi, _Katalog der aus der Sammlung des Kgl. Rates Marczell von Nemes-Budapest ausgestellten Gemälde: Kgl. Alte Pinakothek München_, Munich 1911).} his sale, Paris (F. Lair-Dubreuil et al.), 17 June 1913, no. 45, fr. 9,200;{Copy RKD.}…; sale, Federico Gentili di Giuseppe (1868-1940, Paris), Paris (E. Ader, Galerie Jean Charpentier), 5 April 1938, no. 26 (with size prior to restoration), fr. 35,000, to the dealer Delaunoy, Amsterdam;{Note RMA.}…; the dealer Nathan Katz, Dieren and Basel, 1938; his sale, Paris (M. Rheims, Galerie Charpentier), 7 December 1950, no. 5, fr. 300,000, to the museum

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