ADRIAEN JANSZ. KRAEN (HAARLEM 1619-1679)
A roemer, an upturned tazza, grapes, peaches and salmon on pewter platters, olives in a porcelain bowl, and other objects on a partly draped table
oil on panel
23³⁄₈ x 31¹⁄₈ in. (59.3 x 79 cm.)

Baron Frederik Axel Ludvig August Reedtz-Thott (1842-1916), Gavnoe Castle, Denmark, by 1876, and by descent in the family to his grandson,
Baron Axel Gustav Tage Reedz-Thott (1920-1973); Christie's, London, 9 July 1976, lot 113, as 'Jacques de Claeuw', catalogued as being signed with initials.
Anonymous sale; Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 12 November 1977, lot 13, as 'J. de Claeuw'.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 6 May 2008, lot 31, 180,250 guilders to the following,
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 3 July 2013, lot 151.

J. Lange, Baroniet Gavnoes Malerisamling, Næstved, 1876, no. 56, as 'Boelema.
K. Madsen and O. Andrup, Baroniet Gaunøs Malerisamling, Copenhagen, 1914, no. 21 as 'Claeuw'.
K. Madsen, 'Malerisamlingen paa Gavnoe', Kunstmuseets Aarsskrift, IV, 1917, p. 66, as 'Jacques de Claeuw'.
Gavnoe Inventory, 1943-1946, no. 21, as 'Jacques de Claeuw'.
P. Gammelbo, Dutch Still Life Paintings from the 16th to 18th Centuries in Danish Collections, Copenhagen, 1960, no. 60, as 'Jacques de Claeuw'.
N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message, Schiedam, 1980, I, p. 132, fig. 176; II, p. 41, no. 178, as 'J. de Claeuw'.

Gavnoe, Stlleben paa Gavnoe, 1964, no. 21, as 'Jacques de Claeuw'.
Copenhagen, Kunstforeningens udstilling af hollandske og flamske stilleben fra 1600-tallet, 1965, no. 21, as 'Jacques de Claeuw'.

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Little is known about Adriaen Kraen. He is first recorded in Haarlem in 1637 and a year later he is mentioned as a pupil of Jacob de Wet I whose sister he married. By 1642 he was one of the masters of the Haarlem guild. Only a few signed and even fewer dated pictures from his hand are known, one being a picture which was with Douwes, Amsterdam, in 1977, dated 1642. Many of Kraen's pictures have been attributed in the past to his Haarlem colleagues Pieter Claesz. and Willem Claesz. Heda and the works of these painters have many characteristics in common. All three artists obviously specialized in the so-called monochrome banketjes, of which the present picture is a good example. A picture with a similar composition was sold in these rooms, 11 May 1994, lot 26.
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