Two Old Masters from the Dutch Golden Age Restituted to the Heirs of Jacob Lierens Highlights in the forthcoming Old Masters Evening Sale 8 July 2021

LONDON–Christie’s announces Jan Davidsz.de Heem(Utrecht 1606-1684 Antwerp), A Banquet still life and Dirck Hals (Haarlem 1591–1656) and Dirck van Delen (Heusden 1604/5-1671 Arnemuiden) A Merry Company in a palatial interior, as two leading highlights in the forthcoming Old Masters Evening Sale taking place live on 8 July at Christie’s King Street.

The Old Masters Evening Sale is part of the marquee series of auctions comprising this season’s Classic Week calendar.

De Heem’s lavish Banquet still life is widely regarded as one of his finest and most important works. Preserved in remarkable state it offers a dazzling display of the artist’s technical virtuosity on a grand scale. On long term Jan Davidsz. de Heem (Utrecht 1606-1684 Antwerp)A Banquet still life signed ‘j.d.de heem’ (lower centre, on a sheet of music)Estimate £3,000,000 –5,000,000 loan at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht since 1948, the picture has subsequently appeared in no fewer than twelve international exhibitions, making it one of the most widely admired and extensively published Dutch still-lifes in the modern era.