JAN DAVIDSZ. DE HEEM, workshop (Utrecht 1606-1684 Antwerp) Still life with peaches, grapes, a peeled lemon, a melon and other fruit, with oysters and a pipe on a pewter plate, on a wooden table. 1654. Oil on wood. 36.5 × 55.5 cm. Provenance: - Mrs Hintze Collection, Berlin, 1925 (DM 6000) - Collection Dr Heilgendorff, Berlin, around 1930. - Heinz Kuckei Collection, Berlin. - By succession, European private collection. Exhibition: Berlin 1984, Dutch paintings from private collections in Berlin, Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Verein and Gemäldegalerie, 1984/5, no. 64 (as Joris van Son). Literature: - Jan Kelch and Ingeborg Becker: Holländische Malerei aus Berliner Privatbesitz, exhib. cat. Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Verein and Gemäldegalerie, Berlin 1984, pp. 130-131, no. 64. - Fred G. Meijer: Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606-1684), Amsterdam 2016, p. 163, no. A62 (attributed to Cornelis de Heem). Dr Fred G. Meijer dates the present painting, which he examined in the original in 2008, to 1654 and emphasises that it is inspired by still lifes by Jan Davidsz. de Heem from 1652-53, which are now in the National Trust in Tatton Park (inv. no. 1298189) and in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (inv. no. M.86.95). While Dr Meijer still considered the authorship of his son Cornelis de Heem (1631-1695) in his 2016 dissertation, he now assumes that it was created in the studio of Jan Davidsz. De Heem, possibly with the involvement of Johannes Hannot (1633-1684). These objects marked with * (asterisk) are fully subject to VAT, i.e. VAT is charged on the hammer price plus premium. Buyers who present a legally stamped export declaration will be reimbursed the VAT.