JUAN VAN DER HAMEN
8 1/4 x 11 in
Provenance
Andrés de Villarroel (d. Madrid, 16 March 1659), platero de cámara (silversmith to the royal household) and tasador de las Reales Joyas (appraiser of the royal jewels) to Philip IV, Madrid, by 11 May 1655 (as “otro platillo con çermeños”, one of “Quatro fruticos originales de Juan de Valderamen”);
Probably his son, Juan Bautista de Villarroel, also platero de cámara and tasador de las Reales Joyas, Madrid, to whom all the movable goods, including the paintings, were assigned in the partition of 7 May 1659; still alive 18 January 1672 (date of his will);
Antigüedades Linares, Madrid, by June 2015;
Private collection, Paris.
Exhibitions
Literature
Comparative Literature
Jordan, W. B., Spanish Still Life in the Golden Age, 1600–1650, exh. cat., Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, 1985;
Burke, M. B. and Cherry, P., Collections of Paintings in Madrid 1601–1755, Los Angeles, The Getty Information Institute, 1997, vol. I;
Cherry, P., Arte y naturaleza. El bodegón español en el Siglo de Oro, Madrid, Fundación de Apoyo a la Historia del Arte Hispánico, 1999;
Jordan, W. B., Juan van der Hamen y León y la corte de Madrid, exh. cat., Madrid, 2005;
Portús, J. et al., Lo fingido verdadero. Bodegones españoles de la colección Naseiro adquiridos para el Prado, exh. cat., Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2006;
Luna, J. J., El bodegón español en el Prado. De Van der Hamen a Goya, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2008;
Ruiz, L., in Portrait of Spain. Masterpieces from the Prado, exh. cat., Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery, 2012.
Archival Sources
AHPM, Prot. 6671, ff. 454r–465r: will of Andrés de Villarroel, 28 April 1655, before the notary Francisco de Morales;
AHPM, Prot. 6919, ff. 405r–410r: autograph Memoria and declaration of the goods of Andrés de Villarroel, signed Madrid, 11 May 1655, inserted in an auto of 13 April 1656;
AHPM, Prot. 6685, ff. 594r–609: partition of the goods of Andrés de Villarroel, 7 May 1659;
AHPM, Prot. 6227, ff. 23r–30v: will of Juan Bautista de Villarroel, 18 January 1672.