Jan Brueghel II (Antwerp 1601-1678)

A garland of mixed flowers around a silver gilt tazza and a casket on a table

Details

Jan Brueghel II (Antwerp 1601-1678)
A garland of mixed flowers around a silver gilt tazza and a casket on a table
oil on panel
18.7/8 x 26.3/8 in. (48 x 67 cm.)

Provenance

Colonel Deane, Hassocks, Sussex; (+) Christie's, 2 Aug. 1940, lot 21, as 'de Heem' (29gns. to Katz).
with Julius Singer, 1940.
Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 10 July 1987, lot 49 (£46,200).

Literature

M.-L. Hairs, Les Peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Brussels, 1965, p. 364, as attributed to Jan Brueghel I.
K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere, Freren, 1979, pp. 300-1 and 614, no. 338 and fig. 375, as Jan Brueghel I(?).
M.-L. Hairs, Les Peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Brussels, 1985, II, p. 14, as attributed to Jan Brueghel I.

Lot Essay

The artist based this composition on a prototype by his father, Jan Brueghel the Elder, perhaps that now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (see Ertz, op. cit., p. 300, no. 337). The present picture shows slight variation in the depiction of the tazza and also omits several jewels which are included in the Brussels picture.

This lot is sold with photocopies of certificates from Dr. Sam Segal, dated 29 November 1988 and Dr. Klaus Ertz dated 15 January 1990, both of whom attribute the picture in full to Jan Brueghel II.

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