Jan Jansz. den Uyl

(? 1595/96 - 1639/40 Amsterdam)

A Still Life with a large pewter Jug and a 'Pasglass'

Signed with the owl device (his name is owl in Dutch), on the neck
of the pewter jug, and dated 1637
Oil on panel, 32¼ x 27¼ ins. (82 x 69 cm)
VP5100 

Sold to a private collector
Provenance

With Hermssen, The Hague (as W. C. Heda), until 1929
With P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1930-1936
S. Anholt, Amsterdam, 1937-1963
With P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1963
Private collection, Laren, 1980
And by descent, until 1989
Private collection, USA
With David Koetser, Zurich, 1990
Private collection, Switzerland, 1990 – 2006
With Johnny Van Haeften Ltd, 2006, by whom sold to
Private collection Germany 2006 until the present day


Literature

Ingvar Bergström, Dutch Still-Life painting in the Seventeenth Century, 1956, reprinted 1983, p. 147, illustrated no. 135.
Dr. Laurens J. Bol, Hh  Holländische Maler des 17. Jahrhunderts, nahe den grossen Meistern, 1969, p. 72, illustrated, no. 60.
N. R. A. Vroom, A Modest Message: The Painters of the Monochrome ‘Banketje’, 1945, p. 152, no. 272 (illustrated) & p. 217.  Also in the new edition, 1980, vol. I, p. 216, no. 293 (illustrated in colour), and vol. II, p. 128, cat. no. 658.
Bob Haak The Golden Age: Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1984, p. 310, fig. 662.
P. de Boer “Jan Jansz. den Uyl” in Thieme-Becker, Oud-Holland, LVII, 1940, pp. 49-64, ill.


Exhibited

Johnny Van Haeften Limited, London, Dutch & Flemish Old Master Paintings, Catalogue 14, 2006, no. 32.