SwissArtGallery · Documented identity
Pieter de Putter, active in the seventeenth-century Netherlands and deceased in 1659, belonged to an early generation of painters specialising in fish still lifes. The Museum Bredius holds a composition featuring a pike alongside other fish. Such subjects make the products of fishing the principal focus of the picture, giving them a role beyond that of incidental accessories.
In the Rijksmuseum’s Still Life with Fish, dated around 1639–1659, several species lie on an earthenware colander at the corner of a wooden table. This arrangement brings bodies and objects together within a confined space. An Elderly Fisherman at His Breakfast, an oil on panel in the Liechtenstein Princely Collections, also demonstrates his engagement with genre painting and the human presence in everyday settings.
This profile brings together identity references for Pieter de Putter and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Oil on wood
Stillleben mit Fischen auf einer Holzplatte
Öl auf Holz
Auction date : 2020-05-30
Published result : 3750 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 3000
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Oil on wood
Stillleben mit Fischen
Öl auf Holz
Auction date : 2019-03-20
Published result : 4712 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 3000
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Oil on wood
Stillleben mit Barsch und Hecht
Öl auf Holz
Auction date : 2018-05-16
Published result : 8680 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 4000
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