Still Life - birds, fruits, crustacean, bread, almanac, glasses and porcelain of the Wanli period oil on canvas Flemish school 17th C. relined, small restoration signed NELLIUS FECIT - (probabbly Martinus N. Nellius 1621-1719) and dated 1711 Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - 107 x 84 cm Notes: Two works of this author are exhibited at the Hallwylska Museum, Stockholm, signed and dated 1693 (VD. Museu_ProvidedCHO_Hallwylska_museet_13433. html); and in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Signed (VD. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=nellius&p=1&ps=12&st=Objects&ii=0#/SK-A-1751,0). Bing Microsoft Translator
Paintings with this same authorship were sold at Christie's (VD. Https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/searchresults.aspx?sc_lang=en&lid=1&searchFrom=searchresults&entry=martinus%20nellius&searchtype=p&action=search) and Sotheby's (VD. Https://www.sothebys.com/en/search-results.html?query=martinus%20nellius). In the identification of one of the auctioned paintings, the experts stressed the following characteristics of the
painter also present in this painting:Peça 190036/56
"Another distinct feature in many of Nellius' compositions, as in this painting, is the sheet of paper, often folded as a small paper bag in which tobacco was sold, inscribed with the word 'almanac'. See for example the one sold, London, Sotheby's, 5 July 2007, lot 149." - (vd. http://www.sothebys.com/fr/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.51.html/2011/omp-am1098). Bibliography: 1) Petra ten-Doesschate Chu - Im Lichte Hollands: Holländische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts aus den Sammlungen des Fürsten von Liechtenstein und aus Schweizer Besitz exh. cat. Basel, Kunstmuseum, 1987, pp. 184-185, no 66, with illustration. 2) E. Haverkamp-Begemann, K. Ahrens - Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings. The Netherlands and German-speaking Countries. Fifteenth-Nineteenth Centuries, Hartford, 1978, p. 167, no. 102, p. 123. 3) Luca Bild-Lexikon, Holländische Stilllebenmaler im 17. Jahrhundert, vol. 3, Lingen 1995, p. 733. In the Dorotheum catalogue as to the sale of a painting by Nellius, this source is cited, registering: Peça 190036/56
"Nellius should be accorded an exceptional role in Leiden, since he is a ‘naive intimist’.... Because he lowered the eye-level of all of his pictures down to the edge of the table, the objects depicted turn ... into three-dimensional forms giving the appearance of being tangibly near. Yet Nellius’ particular, almost sfumato-like rendition of light and shade removes all of the objects from haptic proximity and reorders them in a realm of atmospheric appearance beyond concrete materiality..." 4) A. van der Willigen & F.G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Painters working in oils, 1525 - 1725, Leiden, 2003.


Two works of this author are exhibited at the Hallwylska Museum, Stockholm, signed and dated 1693 (VD. Museu_ProvidedCHO_Hallwylska_museet_13433. html); and in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Signed (VD. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=nellius&p=1&ps=12&st=Objects&ii=0#/SK-A-1751,0). Bing Microsoft Translator
Paintings with this same authorship were sold at Christie's (VD. Https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/searchresults.aspx?sc_lang=en&lid=1&searchFrom=searchresults&entry=martinus%20nellius&searchtype=p&action=search) and Sotheby's (VD. Https://www.sothebys.com/en/search-results.html?query=martinus%20nellius). In the identification of one of the auctioned paintings, the experts stressed the following characteristics of the
painter also present in this painting:Peça 190036/56
"Another distinct feature in many of Nellius' compositions, as in this painting, is the sheet of paper, often folded as a small paper bag in which tobacco was sold, inscribed with the word 'almanac'. See for example the one sold, London, Sotheby's, 5 July 2007, lot 149." - (vd. http://www.sothebys.com/fr/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.51.html/2011/omp-am1098). Bibliography: 1) Petra ten-Doesschate Chu - Im Lichte Hollands: Holländische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts aus den Sammlungen des Fürsten von Liechtenstein und aus Schweizer Besitz exh. cat. Basel, Kunstmuseum, 1987, pp. 184-185, no 66, with illustration. 2) E. Haverkamp-Begemann, K. Ahrens - Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings. The Netherlands and German-speaking Countries. Fifteenth-Nineteenth Centuries, Hartford, 1978, p. 167, no. 102, p. 123. 3) Luca Bild-Lexikon, Holländische Stilllebenmaler im 17. Jahrhundert, vol. 3, Lingen 1995, p. 733. In the Dorotheum catalogue as to the sale of a painting by Nellius, this source is cited, registering: Peça 190036/56
"Nellius should be accorded an exceptional role in Leiden, since he is a ‘naive intimist’.... Because he lowered the eye-level of all of his pictures down to the edge of the table, the objects depicted turn ... into three-dimensional forms giving the appearance of being tangibly near. Yet Nellius’ particular, almost sfumato-like rendition of light and shade removes all of the objects from haptic proximity and reorders them in a realm of atmospheric appearance beyond concrete materiality..." 4) A. van der Willigen & F.G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Painters working in oils, 1525 - 1725, Leiden, 2003.


Two works of this author are exhibited at the Hallwylska Museum, Stockholm, signed and dated 1693 (VD. Museu_ProvidedCHO_Hallwylska_museet_13433. html); and in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Signed (VD. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=nellius&p=1&ps=12&st=Objects&ii=0#/SK-A-1751,0). Bing Microsoft Translator
Paintings with this same authorship were sold at Christie's (VD. Https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/searchresults.aspx?sc_lang=en&lid=1&searchFrom=searchresults&entry=martinus%20nellius&searchtype=p&action=search) and Sotheby's (VD. Https://www.sothebys.com/en/search-results.html?query=martinus%20nellius). In the identification of one of the auctioned paintings, the experts stressed the following characteristics of the
painter also present in this painting:Peça 190036/56
"Another distinct feature in many of Nellius' compositions, as in this painting, is the sheet of paper, often folded as a small paper bag in which tobacco was sold, inscribed with the word 'almanac'. See for example the one sold, London, Sotheby's, 5 July 2007, lot 149." - (vd. http://www.sothebys.com/fr/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.51.html/2011/omp-am1098). Bibliography: 1) Petra ten-Doesschate Chu - Im Lichte Hollands: Holländische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts aus den Sammlungen des Fürsten von Liechtenstein und aus Schweizer Besitz exh. cat. Basel, Kunstmuseum, 1987, pp. 184-185, no 66, with illustration. 2) E. Haverkamp-Begemann, K. Ahrens - Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings. The Netherlands and German-speaking Countries. Fifteenth-Nineteenth Centuries, Hartford, 1978, p. 167, no. 102, p. 123. 3) Luca Bild-Lexikon, Holländische Stilllebenmaler im 17. Jahrhundert, vol. 3, Lingen 1995, p. 733. In the Dorotheum catalogue as to the sale of a painting by Nellius, this source is cited, registering: Peça 190036/56
"Nellius should be accorded an exceptional role in Leiden, since he is a ‘naive intimist’.... Because he lowered the eye-level of all of his pictures down to the edge of the table, the objects depicted turn ... into three-dimensional forms giving the appearance of being tangibly near. Yet Nellius’ particular, almost sfumato-like rendition of light and shade removes all of the objects from haptic proximity and reorders them in a realm of atmospheric appearance beyond concrete materiality..." 4) A. van der Willigen & F.G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Painters working in oils, 1525 - 1725, Leiden, 2003.