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Apricots on a stalk, cherries, a wild strawberry, redcurrants, shells, a butterfly, a bee, a spider, a fly, a caterpillar and a dragonfly on a ledge
Details
Balthasar van der Ast (Middelburg 1593/4-1657 Delft)
Apricots on a stalk, cherries, a wild strawberry, redcurrants, shells, a butterfly, a bee, a spider, a fly, a caterpillar and a dragonfly on a ledge
signed 'B. Vander. Ast' (lower left)
oil on panel
7 x 13 in. (19.1 x 33.7 cm.)
Apricots on a stalk, cherries, a wild strawberry, redcurrants, shells, a butterfly, a bee, a spider, a fly, a caterpillar and a dragonfly on a ledge
signed 'B. Vander. Ast' (lower left)
oil on panel
7 x 13 in. (19.1 x 33.7 cm.)
Provenance
Captain E.G. Spencer-Churchill, M.C., Northwick Park, Blockley, Gloucestershire; Christie's, London, 1 April 1960, lot 61 (2,400 gns. to Agnews).
with Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., London.
with Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., London.
Literature
J. Smith A Catalogue Raisonne etc., London, 1829, I. p. 98, no. 38 and Supplement, no. 37.
C. Hofstede de Groot, Verzeichnis der Werke, etc., X, Stuttgart, 1928, p. 168, no. 238.
C. Hofstede de Groot, Verzeichnis der Werke, etc., X, Stuttgart, 1928, p. 168, no. 238.
Exhibited
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Hidden Treasures, 27 July-17 October 1993, p. 9, no.1, illustrated.