Lot Essay
Andries Daniels' oeuvre is recognisable, amongst other things, by its strong coloring, especially yellow highlighting, and by the frequent pyramidal composition of his paintings. A signed and dated work of 1610 (private collection), also showing a bouquet of flowers in a decorative bronze vase has all of these characteristics in common, including an identical multicolored tulip, and a similar double kingcup, white rose and apothecary's rose. Another painting of a wreath of flowers has a similar imperial crown on top and a similar peony in reverse (M.-L. Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, 1985, p. 254, color pl. 79). Two unsigned works by the artist may also be compared, in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kassel and the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden (Inv. nos. 56 and 944a). They show, among other things, the same multicolored Antwerp tulip. A similar vase can be observed in several works which may be attributed to Daniels, for example, a flower piece in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg (Inv. no. 9981)