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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.