Lot Essay
The pair to the present lot, representing 'Flowers in a Terracotta Vase' was sold at Sotheby's, New York on Jan. 17, 1992, lot 96, for $3.2 million
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
JAN VAN HUYSUM* (1682-1749)
Details
JAN VAN HUYSUM* (1682-1749)
Pink and white double Hollyhocks, Morning Glory, Marigolds, Cockscombs, Passion Flowers and Forget-me-nots surrounding a sculpted Urn, with a melon and plums in a wicker basket, grapes, peaches, plums, a split melon, raspberries, red currants, walnuts, a pomegranite, apricots and other fruit on a stone ledge, with a Cabbage White, Red Admiral and Painted Lady butterflies and other insects
signed and dated 'Jan van Huÿsum/Fecit 1730'--oil on panel
30½ x 23½in. (77.5 x 59.7cm.)
Pink and white double Hollyhocks, Morning Glory, Marigolds, Cockscombs, Passion Flowers and Forget-me-nots surrounding a sculpted Urn, with a melon and plums in a wicker basket, grapes, peaches, plums, a split melon, raspberries, red currants, walnuts, a pomegranite, apricots and other fruit on a stone ledge, with a Cabbage White, Red Admiral and Painted Lady butterflies and other insects
signed and dated 'Jan van Huÿsum/Fecit 1730'--oil on panel
30½ x 23½in. (77.5 x 59.7cm.)
Provenance
Jan and Peter Bisshop, Rotterdam, before 1771
Jan and Adriaen Hope, London, in 1771
Henry Philip Hope, London, by 1810
Henry Thomas Hope, London, by 1835
possibly Lord Henry Francis Pelham Clinton-Hope, London
Sir Carl Meyer; sale, Christie's, London, May 30, 1930, lot 145
Adele, Lady Meyer; sale, Christie's, London, June 29, 1934, lot 45 (750 gns. to Fearon)
Jan and Adriaen Hope, London, in 1771
Henry Philip Hope, London, by 1810
Henry Thomas Hope, London, by 1835
possibly Lord Henry Francis Pelham Clinton-Hope, London
Sir Carl Meyer; sale, Christie's, London, May 30, 1930, lot 145
Adele, Lady Meyer; sale, Christie's, London, June 29, 1934, lot 45 (750 gns. to Fearon)
Literature
Pictures of H. Hope, Cavenish Square, unpublished manuscript (Frick Art Reference Library), 1810 (see second floor anteroom which indicates the pair of Huysums hung on either side of a Wouwermans landscape)
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works..., 1835, VI, p. 480, no. 77
G. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 1854, II, p. 124
E. Wiersum, Het Schilderijen-Kabinet van Jan Bisshop te Rotterdam, Oud Holland, XXVIII, 1910, p. 180
A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813-1912, 1914, IV, p. 1543
C. Hofstede de Groot, Verzeichnis des Werke der her Vorragendsten Hollandischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, 8, X, no. 94, no. 94 or 227
M.H. Grant, Jan van Huysum 1682-1745, 1954, p. 30, no. 186
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works..., 1835, VI, p. 480, no. 77
G. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 1854, II, p. 124
E. Wiersum, Het Schilderijen-Kabinet van Jan Bisshop te Rotterdam, Oud Holland, XXVIII, 1910, p. 180
A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813-1912, 1914, IV, p. 1543
C. Hofstede de Groot, Verzeichnis des Werke der her Vorragendsten Hollandischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, 8, X, no. 94, no. 94 or 227
M.H. Grant, Jan van Huysum 1682-1745, 1954, p. 30, no. 186
Exhibited
London, British Institution, 1815, no. 107