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A garland with a tulip, stocks, auricula, chrysanthemums and other flowers, hung against a stone niche
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Pieter van Loo (Haarlem 1731-1784)
A garland with a tulip, stocks, auricula, chrysanthemums and other flowers, hung against a stone niche
signed 'P: v: Loo. Fecit.'
black chalk, touches of gum Arabic, watercolour in a feigned mount, black ink framing lines
14 7/8 x 19 5/8 in. (37.8 x 49.9 cm.)
A garland with a tulip, stocks, auricula, chrysanthemums and other flowers, hung against a stone niche
signed 'P: v: Loo. Fecit.'
black chalk, touches of gum Arabic, watercolour in a feigned mount, black ink framing lines
14 7/8 x 19 5/8 in. (37.8 x 49.9 cm.)
Provenance
Purchased by Frank James (1851-1890) and by descent to his brother
William James.
William James.
Literature
West Dean Park, Inventory, 1912, Vol. I WDMS. 336, p. 256 – THE BOUDOIR – A Water Colour – festoons of flowers; by P. Van Loo. 15 x 20.
S.-M. Kusunoki, 'Surrealism and 'The Golden Age': West Dean and the James Legacy', Apollo Magazine, June, 1999, pp. 8-9, fig. 8.
S.-M. Kusunoki, 'Surrealism and 'The Golden Age': West Dean and the James Legacy', Apollo Magazine, June, 1999, pp. 8-9, fig. 8.
Exhibited
London, The Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair, Surrealism and The Golden Age: West Dean and the James Legacy, June 1999.
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