18TH CENTURY FOLLOWER OF JAN BRUEGHEL THE ELDER | STILL LIFE OF FLOWERS

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February 4, 05:27 PM GMT

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Property from a Private Collection, New York

18TH CENTURY FOLLOWER OF JAN BRUEGHEL THE ELDER

STILL LIFE OF FLOWERS

oil on copper

copper: 9 by 6⅞ in.; 22.9 by 17.5 cm.

framed: 17 by 15 in.; 43.2 by 38.1 cm.

Please note that this painting has been recently cleaned and varnished. The images for this painting have been updated.

Likely datable to the 18th century, this painting appears to be a pastiche of two late sixteenth century still lifes attributed to Jan Brueghel the Elder in the Galleria Borghese, Rome.¹

^1. Oil on copper, 12 by 16 cm., inv. no. 516; oil on copper, 28 by 21 cm., inv. no. 362. See Cataloghi dei Musei e Gallerie d'Italia. Galleria Borghese. I dipinti, vol. II, Rome 1959, reproduced under illustrazioni, figs. 220 and 221.