The Oyster Meal


Oil on canvas
25.5 by 21 cm.


This painting has an illustrious provenance as it was once included in the famous
18th Century collection of Pieter van Winter in Amsterdam. His daughter,
Lucretia van Winter, inherited it in the beginning of the 19th Century, and in 1822
she married Jonkheer Hendrik Six. Our painting then enters the Six collection. In
1928 some of the collection is being sold in lieu of succession rights.
The sitters were traditionally identified as the Amsterdam painter Bartholomeus
van der Helst and his wife, and as also painted by Van der Helst (as remarked in
the 1928?sale catalogue).
We are grateful to Wite van Haersma Buma for his help in cataloguing the provenance
of this lot.


Provenance:
Johan van der Marck Aegidiusz. (1707-1770), his deceased sale, Amsterdam,
Yver, 28 August 1773, lot 121, as Bartholomeus van der Helst, sold for Dfl. 500
to Jan Wubbels;
Jan Jacob de Bruyn (1720-1792), his deceased sale, Amsterdam, Van der Schley,
12 September 1798, where acquired for Dfl. 460 by
Pieter van Winter (1745?1807), Amsterdam;
by descent to his daughter, Lucretia Johanna van Winter (1785?1845),
Amsterdam;
by descent to her sons, Jan Pieter Six van Hillegom (1824?1899) and Pieter
Hendrik Six van Vromade (1827?1905), Amsterdam;
by descent to Jan Pieter Six van Hillegom?s son Jan Six van Hillegom
(1857?1926), Amsterdam (inv. no. 52);
by whose descendants sold in lieu of succession rights, sale, Amsterdam, Fred.
Muller, 16 October 1928, lot 24 (as ?Les amateurs d?hu?tres?);
Bought by Cohen van Deventer in 1928;
Probably Mrs. De Bordes?van Heel, The Hague;
Thence by descent.


Literature:
O. Naumann, Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635?1681), Doornspijk 1981, vol. 1,
p. 157, no. C 70, as ?a painting loosely based on the Mauritshuis pendants by a
mediocre contemporary.?;
S. Avery?Quash, ?The Travel Notebooks of Sir Charles Eastlake?, in: The Walpole
Society 73 (2011) vol. 1, p. 555.

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