Comparable Sales
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
No public-rights comparable sales meet the current evidence criteria. RELICT does not fill the table with research-only or licensed-only facts.
Art Institute of Chicago
Museum
Still Life
c. 1625
Market Intelligence
Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.
Last known price
$2,750
Dealer sale · Oct 21, 1935
+57.1% vs previous observed sale
Matched price history · normalized USD · Foundry provisional
$2K1935
$3K1935
Last known price$2,7502 matched observed sales
Observed median$2,250
Observed sales2
Artist index—
1935-10-21Dealer sale$2,750.00
1935-07-18Dealer purchase$1,750.00
Artist index unavailableInsufficient qualifying evidence; no synthetic curve is published.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.
Evidence ranked
Provenance
PublicProbably Cassirer, Amsterdam [the mounts of photos in both the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, and the Witt Library, London, are marked Cassirer, Amsterdam, 1939, though the picture was at the Art Institute from late 1935
Probably Cassirer, Amsterdam [the mounts of photos in both the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Doc...
the Witt photo is also annotated “Worcester, Mass.”
the Witt photo is also annotated “Worcester, Mass.”
see also Vroom 1945 and Bergstrom 1956]. M. Knoedler & Co., New York by 1935 [receipt dated September 9, 1935 in Registrar’s office
see also Vroom 1945 and Bergstrom 1956]. M. Knoedler & Co., New York by 1935 [receipt dated Septemb...
the number A 1559 printed on a label on the back may be the Knoedler’s stock number]
the number A 1559 printed on a label on the back may be the Knoedler’s stock number]
sold to the Art Institute, 1935.
sold to the Art Institute, 1935.
Source provenance text
Probably Cassirer, Amsterdam [the mounts of photos in both the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, and the Witt Library, London, are marked Cassirer, Amsterdam, 1939, though the picture was at the Art Institute from late 1935; the Witt photo is also annotated “Worcester, Mass.”; see also Vroom 1945 and Bergstrom 1956]. M. Knoedler & Co., New York by 1935 [receipt dated September 9, 1935 in Registrar’s office; the number A 1559 printed on a label on the back may be the Knoedler’s stock number]; sold to the Art Institute, 1935.
Art Institute of Chicagoconfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, "Condition; Excellent," March - April 1951, cat. 8.
Art Institute of Chicagoconfidence 100%
Sourced Overview Evidence
<p>Around 1600, as the Dutch economy boomed, large-scale still lifes depicting luxury goods emerged as a genre that appealed to a sophisticated clientele. Pieter Claesz. was a leading painter of a type of still life often described as a “banquet piece,” which featured sumptuous foods and opulent serving vessels, typically strewn across an elaborately dressed tabletop. These costly goods—like the lemon, olives, sweetmeats, and lace-edged damask tablecloth in this painting—were sometimes depicted in a state of decay to suggest the transitory nature of coveted earthly things. The well-preserved items here instead celebrate wealth and its lavish display.</p>
Art Institute of Chicagoconfidence 100%
Evidence state
2 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 5 structured provenance events · 1 structured exhibitions.
Short DescriptionProvenance TextExhibition HistoryCredit Line