JACOB VAN ES (ANTWERP 1596-1666)
A plate with prawns and a roll, a bowl with olives, a façon de Venise, a glass of beer and almonds on a table
indistinctly signed and dated '[...]COB [...] VAN [...]' (lower left)
oil on copper, laid down on panel
12¹⁄₂ x 15³⁄₄ in. (32.2 x 40 cm.)

with Bruno Meissner Gallery, Zurich, by 1971.
Private collection, United States.
Private collection, Switzerland.
with David Koetser, Zurich, by 1989.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 31 May 1991, lot 83, where acquired by the present owner.

K. Albala, Food in Early Modern Europe: Food through History, Westport, 2003, illustrated on the front cover.

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Lot Essay

Only a handful of still lifes by Jacob van Es on copper are known, including one in the National Gallery Prague. A similar still life on a comparably sized sheet of copper was sold Lempertz, Cologne, 14 May 1994, lot 36, while a third is in a Czech private collection.