Getty Gets a Dazzling de Heem
Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Glass Vase with Flowers and Fruit , about 1673-1674. J. Paul Getty Museum The Getty Museum has acquired two Dutch still lifes by Pieter Claesz. and Jan Davidsz. de Heem , plus an erotic genre scene by Marguerite Gérard in collaboration with Jean-Honoré Fragonard . The de Heem has just been placed on view. I'll say more about the Claesz. and Gérard/Fragonard in a future post. Jan Davidsz. de Heem's Glass Vase with Flowers and Fruit was owned by an Italian-German family for over a century. Measuring 34-3/8 by 26-7/16 in., the painting was auctioned by Lempertz (Cologne) on May 17, 2025 . The lot essay hailed it as "an exciting and most important addition to the known oeuvre of Jan Davidsz. de Heem… completely unrecorded until recently." It sold for 3.162 million euros, more than doubling the high estimate. That got less attention than it might have, for it was eclipsed just four days later in New York. On May 25, Sotheby's auctioned the co...
