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Property from an Italian Private Collection
PSEUDO-JAN VAN KESSEL II | A still life of flowers in a porcelain bowl and a squirrel on a stone ledge
Auction Closed
December 5, 12:50 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Italian Private Collection
PSEUDO-JAN VAN KESSEL II
active in southern Europe in the second half of the 17th century
A still life of flowers in a porcelain bowl and a squirrel on a stone ledge
oil on copper
12.3 x 17.4 cm.; 14⅞ x 6⅞ in.
With Galerie Robert Finck, Brussels (as Jan van Kessel II);
Private collection, Milan, since 1998.
M.-L. Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Tournai 1998, p. 299, reproduced in colour fig. 99 (as Jan van Kessel II);
K. Ertz and C. Nitze-Ertz, Die Maler Jan van Kessel. Jan van Kessel der Ältere 1626–1679, Jan van Kessel der Jüngere 1654–1708, Jan van Kessel der 'Andere' ca. 1620 – ca. 1621, Lingen 2012, p. 451, cat. no. 186 (as Jan van Kessel II).