Contact gallery for price		Abraham Susenier Leiden c. 1620 - after 1666 Dordrecht A Still Life with a Lemon on a Pewter Plate, Grapes, and a Roemer Oil on panel 13 1/4 x 20 1/2 inches (33.6 x 52cm) Signed with a monogram, lower left Abraham Susenier was a rare still life and landscape master whose few remaining examples reflect the work of Jan Davidz de Heem and Abraham van Beyeren. His breakfast pieces most often display fruit, crabs, bread, glasses and metal ware on wooden tabletops with crumpled velvet cloths, and usually with vine branches trailing over them. He also painted Vanitas still-lifes but less frequently. Susenier's palette is light in tone, leaning toward the monochromatic, and the elements are accurately drawn. Our painting is a beautifully rendered still life celebrating the pleasures of the vine. The composition is dominated by a gathering of succulent grapes. Tucked amongst them is a glass beaker of white wine, and a knife while in the foreground, placed on a silver platter, sits a peeled and sliced lemon with its rind curling over the plate and down the table. A similar piece by Susenier is housed in the Ashmolean Museum which has the same lemon with its curling peel depicted in the left foreground of the composition. Our composition is arranged on a tabletop draped in dark velvet, adding to the refined air of this wonderfully detailed, and masterfully painted still life.