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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 3, 2012 | Christie's | London | Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale | 43 | $****** - ****** | Flowers in a glass vase on a draped table, with a silver tazza, fruit, insects and birds |
paintings
114.3 x 91.4 cm (45 x 35.98 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'J.D De Heem R' (lower left)
Anonymous sale; Tideman, de Winter, et al., Amsterdam, 18 March 1767, lot 9, 'Een zeer Fraay en Ryk Ordinantie' (148 guilders to Bosboom). François Pauwels, Brussels; (+) his sale, De Maneffe, Brussels, 22 August 1803, lot 31, 'Un brillant et magnifique tableau, représentant un bouquet de fleurs des plus belle espèces, fruits, insectes de tous genres, oiseaux, et autres petits animaux; le tout grouppé avec art; [..] cet ouvrage parfait dans ce genre aimable, et l'une des compositions marquantes de ce grand peintre, comme de ses plus heureuses pour l'exécution, la finesse des détails et cette grande fraîcheur de coloris qui peut se comparer a la nature, est un chef-d'oeuvre.' (930 francs). with Albertus Brondgeest (1786-1844), Amsterdam. P.J.F. Vrancken, Lokeren; (+) his sale, Lokeren, 15 May 1838, lot 66, 'Les fleurs les plus gracieuses de forme et de couleur composent un bouquet, posé sur une table que couvre un tapis de Smyrne; des fruits séduisants par une heureuse maturité, tels que pêches et oranges garnissent des assiettes a côté desquelles on aperçoit une coupe en argent qui semble ciselée par Cellini. On connait ce tableau pour être le chef-d'oeuvre de l'artiste' (1,800 francs to Chaplin). H.W. Jephson, Malvern Wells;
Christie's, London, 24 May 1907, lot 96, 'J. D. De Heem, A bowl of flowers, and fruit on a table, with birds and butterflies, signed, 44 x 35 in.' (340 gns. to Huggins). with Dowdeswell Gallery, London, circa 1909. Baron August Jansen, Brussels; his sale, Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 12 April 1921, lot 4 (10,800 guilders, to van Buren on behalf of the great-grand-father of the present owners).
Utrecht, Centraal Museum and Brunswick, Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum, Jan Davidsz de Heem en zijn kring, 16 February-16 July 1991, no. 33.
M.-L. Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Paris and Brussels, 1955, p. 219; 4th edition, 1998, p. 311, 'L'artiste donne toute l'importance au bouquet dans une somptueuse étude signée Fleurs et Fruits (toile 114,5 x 94,5 cm.), vendue à Amsterdam en 1921'. S. Segal, Een bloemrijk verleden: overzicht van de noord- en zuidnederlandse bloemschilderkunst, 1600-heden, Amsterdam and 's-Hertogenbosch, 1982, pp. 49 and 53, no. 9. E. Greindl, Les peintres flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siècle, Sterrebeek, 1983, p. 360, no. 18. S. Segal, Flowers and Nature, Netherlandish Flower Painting of Four Centuries, Amstelveen, 1990, p. 219 note 5, 'One of the most beautiful flower pieces'. S. Segal, Jan Davidsz de Heem en zijn kring, exhibition catalogue, The Hague, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 1991, pp. 18, 27, 30-1, 37, 57 note 57, 193-6, 201 and 225, no. 33, illustrated. S. Michalski, 'Prunk und Vanitas: de Heem in Braunschweig' in Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 18 June 1991, p. 31, illustrated. F. Hofrichter, 'Utrecht and Brunswick Jan Davidsz. de Heem', The Burlington Magazine, CXXXIII, June 1991, p. 404. P. Sutton, The Age of Rubens, Boston, 1993, p. 516 note 2. A. Wallert and J. Dik, 'The scientific examination of a seventeenth-century masterpiece', Zeitschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Konservierung, XXI, 2007, pp. 38-51.
