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PROPERTY OF A PROMINENT ST. LOUIS FAMILY. Studio of JAN (I) VAN KESSEL (Flemish, 1626-1679). Kitchen Scene with Fish, Ve...
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PROPERTY OF A PROMINENT ST. LOUIS FAMILYStudio of JAN (I) VAN KESSEL (Flemish, 1626-1679)
Kitchen Scene with Fish, Vegetables, Fruit, and Animals, circa 1660s-70s
Oil on copper with plywood panel backing
6-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches (16.5 x 21.6 cm)
PROVENANCE:
(?) Joseph Philipson (Posen, Poland 1773-1844 St. Louis), St. Louis, Missouri, by 1844;
Charles Samuel Rannells, Esq., (1813-1877) and Mary Warder Rannells (d. 1896) of St. Louis, Missouri, possibly acquired from the above in 1844-1848;
Thence by descent to their son and daughter-in-law, Maplewood, Missouri, 1896 to 1939;
Thence by descent to their son and daughter-in-law, Webster Grove, Missouri, and subsequently Dexter, Missouri, 1939 to 1972;
Thence by descent to their daughter, Stillwater, Oklahoma, and subsequently Dallas, Texas, 1972 to the present.
Jan (I) van Kessel was a member of a prolific artistic family from Antwerp. His father was the portrait painter Hieronymous van Kessel, who probably trained him. His uncle was Jan (II) Brueghel, a still-life painter who, in his turn, had worked with his father--a pioneer in the genre of Netherlandish flower paintings and a frequent collaborator of Peter Paul Rubens. After spending several years in Italy, Jan (II) Brueghel returned to Antwerp to assist in his father's large workshop which he ran after his father's death. Jan (I) van Kessel very likely worked with his uncle in the Brueghel family workshop during the middle 1640s, when demand for still lifes, particularly flower painting, was high and production brisk.
Around 1650, Jan (I) van Kessel branched out into a wider variety of still-life subjects. He exploited the entire gamut of subject matter he would have learned to paint in the Brueghel workshop, notably landscapes composed in series such as the seasons or the elements, usually with a conspicuous inclusion of animals. During the 1650s, he also began producing little cabinet pieces, often on copper, featuring arrangements of insects against plain backgrounds, which have the feeling of natural history studies, live animals organized somewhat encyclopedically in landscapes, and also fish or kitchen still lifes resembling the present work. In his fish paintings, which tend to date to the later part of his life, Jan (I) van Kessel adopted a more painterly approach, which characterizes the handling of this charming work by an artist from his workshop.
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