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Memento mori still life
Skull
Lost Art-ID
615894
Artist / Creator
Aelst, Willem van
Birth
1625/1626/1627, Delft
Death
(um) 1683 / (nach) 1687, Amsterdam
Place of activity
Delft (Zuid-Holland); Florenz; Amsterdam
Title
Memento mori still life
Additional title
Skull
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas / painted
Height
60.00 cm
Width
47.00 cm
Inventory number
1 (Hahn 1936), 70 (Hahn Liste 1948)
Description
Hahn: depicting rich baroque wall clock, skull and roses. With Latin inscription.
Koch: Twice he [the uncle Louis Koch] gave me valuable pictures showing some death symbols, which he had acquired by chance.
Provenance
Collection Louis Koch, Frankfurt a.M. (?); Collection Dr. Richard and Maria Koch, Frankfurt a.M. - 27.-28.10.1936; Auction Hahn, Frankfurt a.M. 27.-28.10.1936, Lot 12; whereabouts unknown
Literature / Source
Richard Koch: Memoirs. Translated by Naomi B. Laqueur. Privatdruck 1989. S.106.; Kunsthaus Heinrich Hahn: Sammlung Professor K., Sammlung eines Frankfurter Fabrikanten, Sammlung O. G. Das graphische Werk Wilhelm Altheims, aus verschiedenem Privatbesitz. Auktion vom 27.-28.10.1936. Frankfurt a. M. 1936. Lot 1.; US - NARA, RG 260, M1947. Textual records created at the Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point include administrative files and monthly reports. Roll 18. Art Dealers In Hesse_Hahn, Margarete-Frankfurt. Blatt 6, 7, 22, 23, 24, 47.
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