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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
JAN VAN HUYSUM (AMSTERDAM 1682-1749)
Roses and other flowers in a terracotta vase with a bird’s nest on a marble ledge; and Fruit, roses and peonies in a basket with hazelnuts on a marble ledge
Details
JAN VAN HUYSUM (AMSTERDAM 1682-1749)
Roses and other flowers in a terracotta vase with a bird’s nest on a marble ledge; and Fruit, roses and peonies in a basket with hazelnuts on a marble ledge
the first signed, inscribed and dated ‘Jan Van Huysum / fecit 1744’ (lower left, on the ledge); the second signed, inscribed and dated ‘Jan Van Huysum / fecit 1744 1745’ (lower left, on the ledge)
oil on panel
the first, 20 5⁄8 x 16 ¾ in. (52.5 x 42.6 cm.); the second, 20 ¾ x 16 ¾ in. (52.7 x 42.6 cm.)(2)
a pair
Roses and other flowers in a terracotta vase with a bird’s nest on a marble ledge; and Fruit, roses and peonies in a basket with hazelnuts on a marble ledge
the first signed, inscribed and dated ‘Jan Van Huysum / fecit 1744’ (lower left, on the ledge); the second signed, inscribed and dated ‘Jan Van Huysum / fecit 1744 1745’ (lower left, on the ledge)
oil on panel
the first, 20 5⁄8 x 16 ¾ in. (52.5 x 42.6 cm.); the second, 20 ¾ x 16 ¾ in. (52.7 x 42.6 cm.)(2)
a pair
Provenance
(Probably) Herman ten Kate, Amsterdam; his sale (†), v.d. Schley a.o., Amsterdam, 10 June 1801, lots 71 and 72, with dimensions as ‘Hoog 23 breed 19 duim’, where acquired for f 810 and f 810 by,
Louis-Bernard Coclers (1741-1817), Amsterdam; his sale, Lebrun, Paris, 27 August 1801 (=2nd day), lots 68 and 69, where erroneously dated ‘1645’ (unsold).
Louis Pierre Marie Paulin Hippolyte, Marquis de Montcalm (1775-1857), Montpellier; his sale, Christie’s, London, 5 May 1849 (=2nd day), lots 115A and 116A, as ‘a pair of exquisite specimens’ and dated ‘1644 [sic]’ (FF 168 and FF 162.15).
Joseph Eugène Schneider (1805-1875), Paris; his sale (†), Pillet, Paris, 6 April 1876 (=1st day), lots 14 and 15, where erroneously as on canvas (FF 3000 and FF 2800).
with Artemis, London, 1970-1.
with H. Terry-Engell, London, by 1973.
Private collection, Los Angeles.
with Silvano Lodi, Campione, 1977.
with Richard Green, London, 1977.
Qaboos bin Said Al Said (1940-2020), Sultan of Oman (according to the RKD).
with Noortman, Maastricht, by 1994 and until 1998, where acquired by the following,
Anonymous sale [Property Sold to Benefit a Midwestern Trust]; Christie’s, New York, 24 January 2003, lot 147, where acquired.
Louis-Bernard Coclers (1741-1817), Amsterdam; his sale, Lebrun, Paris, 27 August 1801 (=2nd day), lots 68 and 69, where erroneously dated ‘1645’ (unsold).
Louis Pierre Marie Paulin Hippolyte, Marquis de Montcalm (1775-1857), Montpellier; his sale, Christie’s, London, 5 May 1849 (=2nd day), lots 115A and 116A, as ‘a pair of exquisite specimens’ and dated ‘1644 [sic]’ (FF 168 and FF 162.15).
Joseph Eugène Schneider (1805-1875), Paris; his sale (†), Pillet, Paris, 6 April 1876 (=1st day), lots 14 and 15, where erroneously as on canvas (FF 3000 and FF 2800).
with Artemis, London, 1970-1.
with H. Terry-Engell, London, by 1973.
Private collection, Los Angeles.
with Silvano Lodi, Campione, 1977.
with Richard Green, London, 1977.
Qaboos bin Said Al Said (1940-2020), Sultan of Oman (according to the RKD).
with Noortman, Maastricht, by 1994 and until 1998, where acquired by the following,
Anonymous sale [Property Sold to Benefit a Midwestern Trust]; Christie’s, New York, 24 January 2003, lot 147, where acquired.
Literature
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, VI, London, 1835, p. 471, nos. 34 and 35.
C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, X, Stuttgart and Paris, 1928, pp. 359 and 384, nos. 97 and 231.
M.H. Grant, Jan van Huysum, Leigh-on-Sea, 1954, pp. 21 and 30, nos. 58 and 190.
C. Moiso-Diekamp, Das Pendant in der Niederländische Malerei der 17 Jahrhunderts, Frankfurt, 1987, p. 273.
S. Segal, in The Temptations of Flora: Jan van Huysum, 1682-1749, exhibition catalogue, Delft and Houston, 2007, pp. 270-271, under no. F39, figs. F39.1 and F39.2, as on canvas and ‘his [van Huysum’s] last two known works’.
C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, X, Stuttgart and Paris, 1928, pp. 359 and 384, nos. 97 and 231.
M.H. Grant, Jan van Huysum, Leigh-on-Sea, 1954, pp. 21 and 30, nos. 58 and 190.
C. Moiso-Diekamp, Das Pendant in der Niederländische Malerei der 17 Jahrhunderts, Frankfurt, 1987, p. 273.
S. Segal, in The Temptations of Flora: Jan van Huysum, 1682-1749, exhibition catalogue, Delft and Houston, 2007, pp. 270-271, under no. F39, figs. F39.1 and F39.2, as on canvas and ‘his [van Huysum’s] last two known works’.
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