Still life with lemons and pomegranates

PETER BINOIT

1590 – 1632 Hanau

Provenance
Private collection Madrid
From whom acquired for the Grasset Collection 1975
Grasset Collection

Literature
Dr. F .G. Meijer, Brueghel to Canaletto, European Masterpieces from the Grasset Collection, exh. cat. San Diego 2016, p.21
S.Thomas, A Feast for the Eyes, European Masterpieces from the Grasset Collection, exh.cat. Sainte Petersburg, Florida 2019, pp.32-33 and 95, reproduced in color

Exhibited
San Diego, The San Diego Museum of Art, Brueghel to Canaletto, European Masterpieces. Masterpieces from the Grasset Collection, 23 March-2 September 2019, cat.nr. 10

This charming still life is enlivened by a blue tit and a dragonfly resting within a large wicket basket filled with lemons and pomegranates set upon a stone ledge against a dark background. Beneath a splendid gilt tazza filled with grapes, plums and figs, a small mouse is depicted eating chestnuts.

Although very few works by Binoit are either signed or dated, the similarities In style and handling between this and other detailed works by the artist, suggest a date of execution of about 1617.

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