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Osias Beert the Elder

Still life with roses, tulips, carnations and other flowers in a Chinese lacquer basket and in a glass vase on a ledge, with a butterfly and a dragonfly

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Auction Closed

July 6, 06:35 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Osias Beert the Elder

Antwerp (?) circa 1580 (?) - 1624

Still life with roses, tulips, carnations and other flowers in a Chinese lacquer basket and in a glass vase on a ledge, with a butterfly and a dragonfly

oil on oak panel, with a prepared reverse

53.3 x 74.9 cm.; 21 x 29½ in.

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老奧夏斯・貝爾

約1580(?) - 1624年，安特衛普(?)

《靜物：臺上中式漆籃及玻璃瓶中的玫瑰、鬱金香、康乃馨與其他鮮花，一隻蝴蝶與一隻蜻蜓》

油彩橡木畫板，畫板背面經處理

53.3 x 74.9 公分；21 x 29½ 英寸

With Galerie M. Schultess, Basel;

W. Hofmann-Hess, Basel;

Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Poulain), 1 December 1982, lot 49;

With John Mitchell, London, 1983;

Robert H. Smith, Washington DC and Arlington, Virginia;

With Richard Green, London, 1987 (and exhibited at Pictura, Maastricht, 1988);

Private collection, New York.

E. Greindl, Les Peintres Flamands de Nature Morte au XVIIe Siècle, Brussels 1983, pp. 28 and 336, no. 53, reproduced in colour p. 34, fig. 17;

M.-L. Hairs, The Flemish Flower Painters in the XVIIth Century, Brussels 1985, p. 456;

S. Segal, Flowers and Nature – Netherlandish Flower Painting of Four Centuries, The Hague 1990, p. 183, reproduced fig. 30a;

P.H. Decoteau, Clara Peeters (1594–ca. 1640) and the development of still-life painting in Northern Europe, Lingen 1992, pp. 70–71 and 197, reproduced p. 71, fig. 82;

To be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné by Dr Klara Alen, Osias Beert. Pioneer of the Antwerp laid table and flower still life.

London, Richard Green, Old Master and Impressionist Paintings, 1987, no. 2.