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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
JAN VAN HUYSUM (AMSTERDAM 1682-1749)
Roses, orange blossom, peonies, narcissi, poppies and other flowers in a terracotta vase decorated with putti, and a bird’s nest on a marble ledge, before a niche
Details
JAN VAN HUYSUM (AMSTERDAM 1682-1749)
Roses, orange blossom, peonies, narcissi, poppies and other flowers in a terracotta vase decorated with putti, and a bird’s nest on a marble ledge, before a niche
signed and dated 'Jan Van Húÿsú[m] / fecit 1734' (lower centre, the ‘m’ partly hidden by a rosebud)
oil on panel, the reverse with a wax seal of the collection of King Willem II of the Netherlands
31 7⁄8 x 23 7⁄8 in. (81 x 60.6 cm.)
Roses, orange blossom, peonies, narcissi, poppies and other flowers in a terracotta vase decorated with putti, and a bird’s nest on a marble ledge, before a niche
signed and dated 'Jan Van Húÿsú[m] / fecit 1734' (lower centre, the ‘m’ partly hidden by a rosebud)
oil on panel, the reverse with a wax seal of the collection of King Willem II of the Netherlands
31 7⁄8 x 23 7⁄8 in. (81 x 60.6 cm.)
Provenance
Johan Diedrik Pompe van Meerdervoort (1697-1749), burgomaster of Dordrecht; (†), Verkolje and Bosch, Amsterdam, 14 October 1749 (=1st day), lot 9 (f 1,215 to ‘B’).
Gerret Braamcamp (1699-1771), Amsterdam; (†) his sale, van der Schley a.o., Amsterdam, 31 July 1771, lot 91, where acquired for f 4,100 by,
Jan Jansz. Gildemeester (1744-1799), Amsterdam; (†) his sale, van der Schley a.o., Amsterdam, 11 June 1800, lot 87 (f 1,950 to Ouderkerk de Vries).
George Watson Taylor (1771-1841), London, by 1818; his sale, Christie’s, London, 13 June 1823, lot 62 (250 gns. to Smith).
with C.J. Nieuwenhuys, from whom acquired for f 5,000 on 15 September 1823 by,
King Willem II of the Netherlands (1792-1849), Grey Salon of the Palais de la Nouvelle Cour, Brussels, and, from 1839, The Hague; (†) his sale, de Vries a.o., The Hague, 12 August 1850, lot 100 (f 3,000 to Nieuwenhuys).
Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1808-1879), Gunnersbury Park, Middlesex, and by inheritance to his widow,
Charlotte, Baroness Lionel de Rothschild (1819-1884), Gunnersbury Park, Middlesex, and by descent to her son,
Leopold de Rothschild (1845-1917), Gunnersbury Park, and by descent to his son,
Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882-1942), listed on the Grand Staircase at Gunnersbury Park until at least 1917, later transferred to the Breakfast Room, 18 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, and by descent to his son,
Edmund Leopold de Rothschild (1916-2009), from whom acquired for £400 (on 15 April 1942, according to the below 2003 sale) by,
Tancred Borenius (1885-1948), from whom acquired by,
John Enrico Fattorini (1878-1949), Bradford, Yorkshire, and by descent to his daughter,
Mary Fattorini (1909-2000), Fieldhead, Heaton, Bradford; (†), Sotheby’s, London, 11 December 2003, lot 74, where acquired.
Gerret Braamcamp (1699-1771), Amsterdam; (†) his sale, van der Schley a.o., Amsterdam, 31 July 1771, lot 91, where acquired for f 4,100 by,
Jan Jansz. Gildemeester (1744-1799), Amsterdam; (†) his sale, van der Schley a.o., Amsterdam, 11 June 1800, lot 87 (f 1,950 to Ouderkerk de Vries).
George Watson Taylor (1771-1841), London, by 1818; his sale, Christie’s, London, 13 June 1823, lot 62 (250 gns. to Smith).
with C.J. Nieuwenhuys, from whom acquired for f 5,000 on 15 September 1823 by,
King Willem II of the Netherlands (1792-1849), Grey Salon of the Palais de la Nouvelle Cour, Brussels, and, from 1839, The Hague; (†) his sale, de Vries a.o., The Hague, 12 August 1850, lot 100 (f 3,000 to Nieuwenhuys).
Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1808-1879), Gunnersbury Park, Middlesex, and by inheritance to his widow,
Charlotte, Baroness Lionel de Rothschild (1819-1884), Gunnersbury Park, Middlesex, and by descent to her son,
Leopold de Rothschild (1845-1917), Gunnersbury Park, and by descent to his son,
Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882-1942), listed on the Grand Staircase at Gunnersbury Park until at least 1917, later transferred to the Breakfast Room, 18 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, and by descent to his son,
Edmund Leopold de Rothschild (1916-2009), from whom acquired for £400 (on 15 April 1942, according to the below 2003 sale) by,
Tancred Borenius (1885-1948), from whom acquired by,
John Enrico Fattorini (1878-1949), Bradford, Yorkshire, and by descent to his daughter,
Mary Fattorini (1909-2000), Fieldhead, Heaton, Bradford; (†), Sotheby’s, London, 11 December 2003, lot 74, where acquired.
Literature
J. Van Gool, De Nieuwe Schouburg Der Nederlantsche Kunstschilders En Schilderessen Waer in de Levens- En Kunstbedryven Der Tans Levende En Reets Overleedene Schilders, Die van Houbraken, Noch Eenig Ander Schryver, Zyn Aengeteekend, Verhaelt Worden, II, The Hague, 1751, p.18.
G. Hoet, Catalogus of Naamlyst van schilderyen…, II, The Hague, 1752, pp. 269, 503.
J.-F. de Bastide, Le Temple des Arts ou Le Cabinet de M. Braamcamp, Amsterdam, 1766, p. 88, as hanging in 'La Salle' where a number of important Dutch pictures were displayed.
'Berigt van Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Jac. Corn. Z....aan de Beminnaaren der Schilderkunst', Nieuwe Vaderlandsche Letter-Oefeningen, V, no. 2, 1771, pp. 143, 147.
'Arts and Sciences. Sale of the Pictures of George Watson Taylor, Esq. MP', The Gentleman’s Magazine, XCIII, no. 1, January-June 1823, p. 547.
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, VI, London, 1835, p. 467, no. 15.
C.J. Nieuwenhuys, Description de la Collection…[du] Prince d’Orange, Brussels, 1837, pp. 92-93, no. 44.
C.J. Nieuwenhuys, Description de la Galerie des Tableaux de S. M. Le Roy des Pays-Bas…, The Hague, 1846, pp. 176-177, no. 84.
Baron L.N. de Rothschild, A descriptive catalogue of the pictures at Piccadilly and at Gunnersbury Park numbering altogether 119, undated, p. 92, no. 5 (Rothschild Archive, London, 000/176/10), as ‘A magnificent assemblage of flowers, roses of various hues, hyacinths, peonies, African marigolds, etc., tastefully disposed in a vase, embellished with figures of children, placed on a marble slab, on which lie some roses, and a hedge sparrow’s nest, containing five blue eggs. There is a large fly on a yellow rose, and a butterfly on the right side / Signed and dated – 1734-’.
A. Graves, F.S.A., A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912, IV, London, 1914, p. 1543.
C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, X, Stuttgart and Paris, 1928, p. 358, no. 93.
The Arts Council of Great Britain. First Annual Report 1945-46, London, 1946, p. 17.
M.H. Grant, Jan van Huysum, 1682-1749, Leigh-on-Sea, 1954, pp. 21 and 31, nos. 54 and 212, colour plate 10, where under no. 212 erroneously said to be in the collection of Alphonse de Rothschild.
C. Bille, De tempel der kunst of het kabinet van den Heer Braamcamp, I, Amsterdam, 1961, pp. 39, 61, 64; II, pp. 22-22a, 100, no. 91, illustrated.
S.H. Pavière, A Dictionary of Flower, Fruit and Still Life Painters, I, Leigh-on-Sea, 1962, p. 36.
C. White, The Flower Drawings of Jan Van Huysum, London, 1964, p. 19, under no. 95.
D.J. De Bruyn Kops, 'De Amsterdamse verzamelaar Jan Gildemeester Jansz.', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, XIII, no. 3, 1965, pp. 98-100, fig. 24.
E. Hinterding and F. Horsch, '"A small but Choice Collection": The Art Gallery of King Willem II of the Netherlands (1749-1849)', Simiolus, XIX, no. 1⁄2, 1989, pp. 10 and 89, no. 100, illustrated, where erroneously said to have come from the collections of Miss Mary Ann Driver and Alphonse de Rothschild.
N. MacLaren, National Gallery Catalogues: The Dutch School, 1600-1900, C. Brown, rev., I, London, 1991, p. 209, under no. 796, note 4.
E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres…, VII, Paris, 1999, p. 300.
'Around the Salerooms', Country Life, 12 February 2004, p. 74, fig. 1.
Weltkunst, LXXIV, no. 3, 2004, p. 109, illustrated.
M. Spliethoff, 'De lotgevallen van een koninklijk schilderij', The Hoogsteder Journal, XI, 2005, p. 24, illustrated.
M. Bisanz-Prakken, in Rembrandt and His Time: Masterworks from the Albertina, Vienna, exhibition catalogue, Vermont, 2005, p. 240, note 6.
M. Spliethoff, 'The Fortunes of a Royal Painting', Hoogsteder Journal, XI, 2005, p. 24, illustrated.
S. Segal, in The Temptations of Flora: Jan van Huysum, 1682-1749, exhibition catalogue, Waanders, 2007, pp. 62, 63, 196, 215, 246-50, 254, 255, 358, no. F32, illustrated in colour.
A.L. Walsh, The Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carter Collection of Dutch Painting, Los Angeles, 2019, pp. 112 and 230, under no. 17, note 12.
D. Davis, ‘A rite of social passage: Gunnersbury Park, 1835-1925, a Rothschild family villa’, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, XVIII, 2019, pp. 12 and 21, note 72, with partially erroneous provenance.
G. Hoet, Catalogus of Naamlyst van schilderyen…, II, The Hague, 1752, pp. 269, 503.
J.-F. de Bastide, Le Temple des Arts ou Le Cabinet de M. Braamcamp, Amsterdam, 1766, p. 88, as hanging in 'La Salle' where a number of important Dutch pictures were displayed.
'Berigt van Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Jac. Corn. Z....aan de Beminnaaren der Schilderkunst', Nieuwe Vaderlandsche Letter-Oefeningen, V, no. 2, 1771, pp. 143, 147.
'Arts and Sciences. Sale of the Pictures of George Watson Taylor, Esq. MP', The Gentleman’s Magazine, XCIII, no. 1, January-June 1823, p. 547.
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, VI, London, 1835, p. 467, no. 15.
C.J. Nieuwenhuys, Description de la Collection…[du] Prince d’Orange, Brussels, 1837, pp. 92-93, no. 44.
C.J. Nieuwenhuys, Description de la Galerie des Tableaux de S. M. Le Roy des Pays-Bas…, The Hague, 1846, pp. 176-177, no. 84.
Baron L.N. de Rothschild, A descriptive catalogue of the pictures at Piccadilly and at Gunnersbury Park numbering altogether 119, undated, p. 92, no. 5 (Rothschild Archive, London, 000/176/10), as ‘A magnificent assemblage of flowers, roses of various hues, hyacinths, peonies, African marigolds, etc., tastefully disposed in a vase, embellished with figures of children, placed on a marble slab, on which lie some roses, and a hedge sparrow’s nest, containing five blue eggs. There is a large fly on a yellow rose, and a butterfly on the right side / Signed and dated – 1734-’.
A. Graves, F.S.A., A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912, IV, London, 1914, p. 1543.
C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, X, Stuttgart and Paris, 1928, p. 358, no. 93.
The Arts Council of Great Britain. First Annual Report 1945-46, London, 1946, p. 17.
M.H. Grant, Jan van Huysum, 1682-1749, Leigh-on-Sea, 1954, pp. 21 and 31, nos. 54 and 212, colour plate 10, where under no. 212 erroneously said to be in the collection of Alphonse de Rothschild.
C. Bille, De tempel der kunst of het kabinet van den Heer Braamcamp, I, Amsterdam, 1961, pp. 39, 61, 64; II, pp. 22-22a, 100, no. 91, illustrated.
S.H. Pavière, A Dictionary of Flower, Fruit and Still Life Painters, I, Leigh-on-Sea, 1962, p. 36.
C. White, The Flower Drawings of Jan Van Huysum, London, 1964, p. 19, under no. 95.
D.J. De Bruyn Kops, 'De Amsterdamse verzamelaar Jan Gildemeester Jansz.', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, XIII, no. 3, 1965, pp. 98-100, fig. 24.
E. Hinterding and F. Horsch, '"A small but Choice Collection": The Art Gallery of King Willem II of the Netherlands (1749-1849)', Simiolus, XIX, no. 1⁄2, 1989, pp. 10 and 89, no. 100, illustrated, where erroneously said to have come from the collections of Miss Mary Ann Driver and Alphonse de Rothschild.
N. MacLaren, National Gallery Catalogues: The Dutch School, 1600-1900, C. Brown, rev., I, London, 1991, p. 209, under no. 796, note 4.
E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres…, VII, Paris, 1999, p. 300.
'Around the Salerooms', Country Life, 12 February 2004, p. 74, fig. 1.
Weltkunst, LXXIV, no. 3, 2004, p. 109, illustrated.
M. Spliethoff, 'De lotgevallen van een koninklijk schilderij', The Hoogsteder Journal, XI, 2005, p. 24, illustrated.
M. Bisanz-Prakken, in Rembrandt and His Time: Masterworks from the Albertina, Vienna, exhibition catalogue, Vermont, 2005, p. 240, note 6.
M. Spliethoff, 'The Fortunes of a Royal Painting', Hoogsteder Journal, XI, 2005, p. 24, illustrated.
S. Segal, in The Temptations of Flora: Jan van Huysum, 1682-1749, exhibition catalogue, Waanders, 2007, pp. 62, 63, 196, 215, 246-50, 254, 255, 358, no. F32, illustrated in colour.
A.L. Walsh, The Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carter Collection of Dutch Painting, Los Angeles, 2019, pp. 112 and 230, under no. 17, note 12.
D. Davis, ‘A rite of social passage: Gunnersbury Park, 1835-1925, a Rothschild family villa’, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, XVIII, 2019, pp. 12 and 21, note 72, with partially erroneous provenance.
Exhibited
London, British Institution, Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, and French Masters, 1818, no. 142 (lent by Watson Taylor).
Liverpool, Liverpool City School of Art, Exhibition of Works by Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century, 22-29 September 1944, no. 7, where erroneously catalogued as previously in the collection of Alphonse de Rothschild.
Arts Council England, Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, 1945, no. 14, lent by the Fattorini family.
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition: Dutch Pictures, 1450-1750, 22 November 1952-1 March 1953, no. 499.
York, City Art Gallery, 1989-2003, on loan.
Delft, Museum Het Prinsenhof and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Temptations of Flora: Jan van Huysum, 1682–1749, 22 September 2006-13 May 2007, no. F32.
Liverpool, Liverpool City School of Art, Exhibition of Works by Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century, 22-29 September 1944, no. 7, where erroneously catalogued as previously in the collection of Alphonse de Rothschild.
Arts Council England, Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, 1945, no. 14, lent by the Fattorini family.
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition: Dutch Pictures, 1450-1750, 22 November 1952-1 March 1953, no. 499.
York, City Art Gallery, 1989-2003, on loan.
Delft, Museum Het Prinsenhof and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Temptations of Flora: Jan van Huysum, 1682–1749, 22 September 2006-13 May 2007, no. F32.
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