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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 3, 2014 | Sotheby's | London | Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale | 36 | $****** - ****** | Garden And House Spiders With Grass Snakes And Caterpillars Contorted And Entwined To Spell The Artist's Name; A Sprig Of Redcurrants With An Elephant Hawk Moth, A Ladybird, A Millipede And Other Insects |
paintings
15 x 20 cm (5.91 x 7.87 in)
oil on copper
one signed centre (with the bugs and animals): JoAn vAn/ Kessel and dated lower right: Fecit. Anno. 1657
With William Hallsborough Gallery, London, 1956
no. II
. With David Koetser, Zurich, circa 1976-80
. Private collection
. With Johnny Van Haeften, London
. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruegel, Une dynastie de peintres, 18 September 1980 – 18 November 1980, nos. 278 & 279.
F. Franchini Guelfi, ‘Otto Marseus van Schrieck a Firenze, Contributo all storia dei rapporti franziate figurative nel seicento Toscano, I,’ in Antichita Viva, vol. 16, no. 2, 1977, p. 15-26;. F. Franchini Guelfi, ‘Otto Marseus van Schrieck a Firenze, Contributoo all storia dei rapporti franziate figurative nel seicento Toscano, II’ in Antichita Viva, vol. 16, n° 4, 1977, p. 13-21, reproduced fig. 8;. C.A. Breuer in Weltkunst, vol. 47, n° 4, 1977, no. II, reproduced;. Tableau, vol. 3, no. 1, 1980, reproduced;. W. Laureyssens, M. Klinge, Bruegel, une dynastie de peintres, exhibition catalogue, Brussels 1980, p. 330, cat. nos. 278 & 279, reproduced;. E. Greindl, Les peintres flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siecle, Sterrebeek 1983, p. 367, no. 65 (the former; p. 368, no. 135 (the latter);. R. Lambert in L. Tongiorgi Tomasi (ed.), An Oak Spring Flora: flower illustration from the fifteenth century to the present time, New Haven 1997, p. 105, no. 26;. K. Ertz & C. Ertz Nietze, Die Maler Jan van Kessel, Lingen 2012, p. 283, no. 450, reproduced (the former); p. 278, no. 436, reproduced as no. 435.
