Roses, peonies, tulips, narcissi, carnations, poppies and other flowers in a basket and a gilt tazza, on a table

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Jan Brueghel the Younger (Antwerp 1601-1678)
Roses, peonies, tulips, narcissi, carnations, poppies and other flowers in a basket and a gilt tazza, on a table
oil on panel
21½ x 35 5/8 in. (54.6 x 90.5 cm.)

Provenance

Lowengart collection, Fürth.
Otto Lowengart, Milwaukee, 1979, from whom purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

Milwaukee, Art Museum, Hidden Treasures: Wisconsin Collects Painting and Sculpture, 11 September - 1 November 1987, no. 9, illustrated, as 'Jan Brueghel the Elder'.

Lot Essay

The present composition is an autograph variant, with minor differences, of Jan Brueghel the Younger's still life formerly in the Ardenne collection, Dordrecht (see K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Jüngere: Die Gemälde mit kritischem OEuvrekatalog, Freren, 1984, pp. 450-1, no. 287, illustrated) and of the painting sold at Sotheby's, London, 14 December 2000, lot 10 (£190,000). Other versions are known, mostly by anonymous followers of Jan Brueghel the Elder (see K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere: Die Gemälde mit kritischem OEuvrekatalog, Cologne, 1979, pp. 294-5, figs. 368-70).

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