Tulips, yellow roses and dog roses in a glass vase on a stone ledge, with a leather pen case and a paper identifying the tulips

Details

Jan Philips van Thielen (Mechelen 1618-1667 Booisschot)
Tulips, yellow roses and dog roses in a glass vase on a stone ledge, with a leather pen case and a paper identifying the tulips
signed 'I.P. Van Thielen F.' (lower centre) and inscribed with the identities of the tulips '...parragoen vangeroen 1 Bont 2. G. Gauda 3.Semper augustus Ter 4. G. bol 5 P. Doria 6 Sedunule 7 Ter 4. G. bol 5 P. Doria 6 Sedunule 7 robanette 8 Leopoldus' (on the list, the tulips being numbered on the picture)
oil on canvas
88.9 x 67.6 cm.

Provenance

with S. Nijstad, The Hague.

Literature

M.L. Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Paris-Brussels, 1955, pp. 109 and 244, fig. 44, as on panel.
M.L. Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Brussels, 1985, I, pp. 268-9, fig. 76; II, p. 51, as on panel.
M.E. Wieseman, The Age of Rubens, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts and Toledo, Museum of Art, 1993-4, pp. 521 and 523, fig. 1.
M.L. Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Doornik, 1998, pp. 267-8, fig. 195, as on panel.
J. de Maere and M. Wabbes, Illustrated Dictionary of 17th Century Flemish Painters, Brussels, 1994, p. 1161, illustrated, as on panel.

Exhibited

Delft, Stedelijk Museum het Prinsenhof, VIe Oude Kunst en Antiekbeurs der Vereniging van Handelaren in Oude Kunst in Nederland, 1954, p. 54, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

The present lot can be dated to the second half of the 1640s, when the influence of the artist's teacher, Daniel Seghers (1590-1661), was still clearly evident.

To date, only one other flower still life with numbered flowers is known, painted by Jacob Marell. Unlike the present painting, that work does not also depict within the composition an identifying list of the flowers. It is interesting to note that Jacob Marell was the author/illustrator of Het Tulpenboek (1637-1645); three of the numbered flowers are tracable in his book: flower no 1. Bontmantel folio 9 [IV], flower no. 2 General Gouda folio 7 [I] and no. 4 General Bol folio 11 [II].

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