Breakfast Still Life

Inscriptions

Signed and dated on the bottom left corner of the white table cloth: HEDA 164[7]

Provenance

Graf Medem, Elley, Courland [this and the following according to 1937 catalogue, Galerie Hans Bammann; copy in curatorial object file]. With Galerie Hans Bammann, Düsseldorf, 1937. With Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1938. Possibly with Douwes Amsterdam, c. 1940 [this according to online lot entry for this object, Christie’s, Amsterdam, November 14, 1991]. Acquired by R. Dreesmann, Zeist; thence by descent within the family; Christie’s, Amsterdam, November 14, 1991, lot 174. Sold, private collection, London, to Johnny Van Haeften, Ltd, London, Mar. 20, 2008 [stock no. 4194]; sold, Donald and Carol Asher, Winnetka, IL, Mar. 27, 2008 [according to Van Haeften invoice no. 23723; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.

Quick Overview

Artist: Willem Claesz. Heda (Dutch, 1594-1680)
Date: 1647
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 52 × 80.1 × 0.9 cm (20 1/2 × 31 9/16 × 3/8 in.); Framed: 69.9 × 97.8 × 7 cm (27 1/2 × 38 1/2 × 2 3/4 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: painting
Style: 17th Century
Place: Netherlands
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Bequest of Donald and Carol Asher
Accession no.: 2023.2779

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.