Pieter van de Venne, (The Hague 1624-1657)

Tulips, narcissi, roses and other flowers in a glass vase on a table-top with a jewellery box and a pocketwatch

Tulips, narcissi, roses and other flowers in a glass vase on a table-top with a jewellery box and a pocketwatch
signed 'Pie****enne' (lower right)
oil on canvas
75.6 x 58.2cm (29 3/4 x 22 15/16in).

Provenance
The Collection of Mrs E. Paardekooper, The Hague, by whom given to her nephew
A.C. Paardekooper, The Hague, 1956
Sale, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 7 May 1993, lot 49, where acquired on behalf of a late Dutch private collector

Exhibited
Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, Nederlandse Stillevens uit de zeventiende eeue, 21 July- 2 September 1962, cat. no. 97 (lent by A.C. Paardekooper)

Pieter van de Venne moved to The Hague in 1625 where he studied under his father Adriaen Pietersz., the well known genre scene painter. In 1639 he joined Saint Luke's Guild and later became a co-founder of the Confrerie Pictura. Only a small number of works by the artist are known, and most depict a simple spherical glass vase, a favourite motif of van de Venne. This vase, along with a similar pocketwatch, reoccurs in at least two other works by the artist, offered at Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 1 December 2009, lot 22 and Sotheby's, New York, 29 May 2003, lot 32.