Cornelis Kruys (active Haarlem and Leiden 1644- died 1660) A pewter jug with an overturned silver cup with fruit, bread and meat on a draped table-top signed 'C:Krvis' (on tablecloth, lower left) oil on panel 92.5 x 74.6cm (36 7/16 x 29 3/8in). Footnotes: Provenance Count Moltke Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark, early 19th century With Van Diemen and Co., The Hague, by 1928 Sale, Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, 29 November 1931, lot 27 Benny Dessau, until his death in 1937 and thence by descent to his son Elnar Dessau and thence by descent in the family until offered Sale, Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1998, lot 200 With Frances Aronson Fine Art, Atlanta, USA, where purchased by the present owner in 1999 Exhibited Tulsa, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Old Master Dutch and Flemish Paintings, June 2002- May 2003 Literature R. Warner, Dutch and Flemish Fruit and Flower Paintings of the XVII and XVIII Centuries, London, 1928, p. 128, ill. fig. 59b N.R.A. Vroom, De schilders van het monochrome banketj, Amsterdam, 1945, cat. no. 112, ill., fig. 128 P. Gammelbo, Dutch Still-life Painting from the 16th to 18th Centuries in Danish Collections, Copenhagen, 1960, p. 52, under no. 55 (footnote) N.R.A. Vroom, A modest message as intimated by the painters of the Monochrome Banketje, Schiedam, 1980, vol. I, p. 139, ill. fig. 184, vol. II, p. 45, no. 204 We are grateful to Dr. Fred Meijer for confirming the attribution to Cornelis Kruys upon examination of colour photographs. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com