Trompe-l’Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain

Date: 1658
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 46.5 × 63.9 cm (18 1/4 × 25 1/8 in.); Framed: 69.2 × 86.7 × 8.3 cm (27 1/4 × 34 1/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
Inscription: Signed and dated on the ledge
Department: Old Master Paintings

Estimate £2,400,000 – 3,500,000

Offered in Old Masters, Antiquities & Arms, 27 September 2026

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A Under raking light

Examine the surface.

Swing the lamp around the picture and drop it towards the surface. Raised paint catches the light and casts a shadow; a flat, uniform surface will not.

Trompe-l’Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain

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Relief

Derived from this photograph by shape-from-shading, as a reading aid. A measured relief map requires photometric stereo and accompanies the full condition report.

B Catalogue note

Provenance

Private collection, the Netherlands
Private collection, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

The Hague, exhibition of Dutch still life, 1954

Literature

Bergström, Dutch Still-Life Painting, p. 154

Condition

On panel, uncradled and stable. The illusionistic curtain is in exceptional state.

This is a summary. A full written condition report, with raking-light and ultraviolet photography, is issued on request and forms part of the description.

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