拍品專文
The biography of the artist is provided by I. Bergström in Dutch Still-life Painting in the 17th Century, 1956, pp. 289/90. Elliger was born in Gotheburg and is said to have studied with Daniel Seghers in Antwerp. In 1660 he is recorded in Amsterdam from where he moved to Altona in 1666. In 1670 he became court painter in Berlin. The present lot is to be dated to the German period of the artist, as the bright colours seem only to occur after a presumed contact with Georg Hinz.
Compare the painting, signed and dated 1676, in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, inv.no. 358 and the picture, signed and dated 1673, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv.no. C215
Dr Sam Segal has kindly specified the flowers, which are:
1 BorageBorago officinalis 2 Forget-me-notMyosotis scorpioides3 CarnationDianthus caryophyllus plenus bicolor4 Provins RoseRosa x provincialis5 Pride AnemoneAnemone pavonina6 CranesbillGeranium pratense bicolor7 Black CherryPrunus serotina8 Poppy AnemoneAnemone coronaria albo-rosea 9 Austrian BriarRosa foetida cv. Bicolor10 African MarigoldTagetes patula bicolor 11 Pride AnemoneAnemone pavonina alba12 Poppy AnemoneAnemone coronaria rhodea13 African MarigoldTagetes patula ochracea14 Poet's NarcissusNarcissus poeticus15 Pot MarigoldCalendula officinalis16 TulipTulipa schrenkii x T. stapfii17 German Flag hybridIris germanica x I. alba18 Almond blossomPrunus dulcis19 Poppy AnemoneAnemone coronaria simplex20 Great JasmineJasminum grandiflorum 21 TulipTulipa clusiana x T. schrenkii22 Poppy AnemoneAnemone coronaria duplex23 Yellow JasmineJasminum fruticans 24 Poppy AnemoneAnemone coronaria pseudoplena bicolor25 Seville OrangeCitrus aurantium
a Large TortoisehellNymphalis polychlorosb Great White 3xPieris brassicaec Red Admiral 2xVanessa atalanta
See colour illustration
Compare the painting, signed and dated 1676, in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, inv.no. 358 and the picture, signed and dated 1673, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv.no. C215
Dr Sam Segal has kindly specified the flowers, which are:
1 BorageBorago officinalis 2 Forget-me-notMyosotis scorpioides3 CarnationDianthus caryophyllus plenus bicolor4 Provins RoseRosa x provincialis5 Pride AnemoneAnemone pavonina6 CranesbillGeranium pratense bicolor7 Black CherryPrunus serotina8 Poppy AnemoneAnemone coronaria albo-rosea 9 Austrian BriarRosa foetida cv. Bicolor10 African MarigoldTagetes patula bicolor 11 Pride AnemoneAnemone pavonina alba12 Poppy AnemoneAnemone coronaria rhodea13 African MarigoldTagetes patula ochracea14 Poet's NarcissusNarcissus poeticus15 Pot MarigoldCalendula officinalis16 TulipTulipa schrenkii x T. stapfii17 German Flag hybridIris germanica x I. alba18 Almond blossomPrunus dulcis19 Poppy AnemoneAnemone coronaria simplex20 Great JasmineJasminum grandiflorum 21 TulipTulipa clusiana x T. schrenkii22 Poppy AnemoneAnemone coronaria duplex23 Yellow JasmineJasminum fruticans 24 Poppy AnemoneAnemone coronaria pseudoplena bicolor25 Seville OrangeCitrus aurantium
a Large TortoisehellNymphalis polychlorosb Great White 3xPieris brassicaec Red Admiral 2xVanessa atalanta
See colour illustration