Carnations in a glass vase on a stone table

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PHILIPS DE MARLIER (c.1573-1668)
Carnations in a glass vase on a stone table
indistinctly signed and dated 'PH***** **M**L*** 1639' ('PH' linked, on the ledge)
oil on panel
17 7/8 x 13 3/8 in. (45 x 34 cm.)

Provenance

with Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, 1973.

Literature

M.-L. Hairs, Les Peintres Flamands de Fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Tournai, 1985, pp. 357, 359 and 360, pl. 121.
B. Wieseman in the catalogue of the exhibition, The Age of Rubens, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1993-1994, p. 504, fig. 1.
J. de Maere, Illustrated Dictionary of 17th-Century Flemish Painters, Brussels, 1994, II, p. 794.

Lot Essay

As Betsy Wieseman observed (op. cit.), bouquets of a single type of flower are rare but not unknown in 17th century Netherlandish still-life painting. She compared the present work to still lifes of carnations by Georg Flegel, Balthasar van der Ast, and Jacob van Hulsdonck (ibid., no. 97, illustrated).

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