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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
JAN VAN HUYSUM (AMSTERDAM 1682-1749)
Peaches and grapes in a wicker basket, with fruit and flowers arranged on a marble ledge, including plums, raspberries, redcurrants, melon, hazelnuts, poppy, morning glory, forget-me-not, cockscomb and jasmine, a stone column and terracotta urn beyond, decorated with putti, holding an opium poppy, with butterflies and insects
Details
JAN VAN HUYSUM (AMSTERDAM 1682-1749)
Peaches and grapes in a wicker basket, with fruit and flowers arranged on a marble ledge, including plums, raspberries, redcurrants, melon, hazelnuts, poppy, morning glory, forget-me-not, cockscomb and jasmine, a stone column and terracotta urn beyond, decorated with putti, holding an opium poppy, with butterflies and insects
signed 'Jan Van Huÿsum fecit' (lower left)
oil on panel, the reverse with two fragmentary wax seals (one too indistinct to be identified; the other belonging to the collection of Maria Carolina Ferdinanda Luisa di Borbone, duchesse de Berry)
31 3⁄8 x 23 5⁄8 in. (79.7 x 60 cm.)
Peaches and grapes in a wicker basket, with fruit and flowers arranged on a marble ledge, including plums, raspberries, redcurrants, melon, hazelnuts, poppy, morning glory, forget-me-not, cockscomb and jasmine, a stone column and terracotta urn beyond, decorated with putti, holding an opium poppy, with butterflies and insects
signed 'Jan Van Huÿsum fecit' (lower left)
oil on panel, the reverse with two fragmentary wax seals (one too indistinct to be identified; the other belonging to the collection of Maria Carolina Ferdinanda Luisa di Borbone, duchesse de Berry)
31 3⁄8 x 23 5⁄8 in. (79.7 x 60 cm.)
Provenance
(Possibly) Claude Tolozan (1728-1796); his sale (†), Paillet and Delaroche, Paris, 25 February 1801 (=3rd day), lot 49 (3,800 FF to Alexandre-Joseph Paillet).
with Alexis Delahante (1767-1837), Paris (according to an inscription on the reverse), from whom probably acquired by,
Charles-Ferdinand de Bourbon, duc de Berry (1778-1820), and by inheritance to his widow,
Maria Carolina Ferdinanda Luisa de Bourbon, duchesse de Berry (1798-1870); her sale, Paillet, Paris, 4 April 1837 (=1st day), lot 6 (7,100 FF plus 5% to C.-J. Nieuwenhuys).
Charles Heusch (c. 1775-1848), London, by 1838, and by descent to his son,
Frederick Heusch (1809-1870), London, from whom acquired with the entire Heusch collection in 1855 by,
Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1808-1879), Gunnersbury Park, Middlesex, and by inheritance to his widow,
Charlotte, Baroness Lionel de Rothschild (1819-1884), Gunnersbury Park, Middlesex, and by descent to her son,
Leopold de Rothschild (1845-1917), Gunnersbury Park, and by descent to his son,
Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882-1942), listed on the Grand Staircase at Gunnersbury Park until at least 1917, later transferred to the Breakfast Room, 18 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, and by descent to his son (probate valuation, dated March 1942),
Edmund Leopold de Rothschild (1916-2009), from whom acquired for £200 (on 15 April 1942, according to the below 2003 sale) by,
Tancred Borenius (1885-1948), from whom acquired by,
John Enrico Fattorini (1878-1949), Bradford, Yorkshire (his initials ‘JEF’ etched into the reverse of the frame), and by descent to his daughter,
Mary Fattorini (1909-2000), Fieldhead, Heaton, Bradford; (†), Sotheby’s, London, 11 December 2003, lot 75, where acquired by the present owner.
with Alexis Delahante (1767-1837), Paris (according to an inscription on the reverse), from whom probably acquired by,
Charles-Ferdinand de Bourbon, duc de Berry (1778-1820), and by inheritance to his widow,
Maria Carolina Ferdinanda Luisa de Bourbon, duchesse de Berry (1798-1870); her sale, Paillet, Paris, 4 April 1837 (=1st day), lot 6 (7,100 FF plus 5% to C.-J. Nieuwenhuys).
Charles Heusch (c. 1775-1848), London, by 1838, and by descent to his son,
Frederick Heusch (1809-1870), London, from whom acquired with the entire Heusch collection in 1855 by,
Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1808-1879), Gunnersbury Park, Middlesex, and by inheritance to his widow,
Charlotte, Baroness Lionel de Rothschild (1819-1884), Gunnersbury Park, Middlesex, and by descent to her son,
Leopold de Rothschild (1845-1917), Gunnersbury Park, and by descent to his son,
Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882-1942), listed on the Grand Staircase at Gunnersbury Park until at least 1917, later transferred to the Breakfast Room, 18 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, and by descent to his son (probate valuation, dated March 1942),
Edmund Leopold de Rothschild (1916-2009), from whom acquired for £200 (on 15 April 1942, according to the below 2003 sale) by,
Tancred Borenius (1885-1948), from whom acquired by,
John Enrico Fattorini (1878-1949), Bradford, Yorkshire (his initials ‘JEF’ etched into the reverse of the frame), and by descent to his daughter,
Mary Fattorini (1909-2000), Fieldhead, Heaton, Bradford; (†), Sotheby’s, London, 11 December 2003, lot 75, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
Chevalier Cuchelet, Etat A. Inventaire des tableaux, composant la galerie de feu Mgr le Duc de Berry, 25 February 1835, Paris, no. 34 (National Gallery Archive, London, NGA42/1).
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, London, 1835, VI, p. 476, no. 57; Supplement, 1842, IX, p. 788, no. 10, where erroneously described as on canvas).
G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854, II, p. 256, where erroneously described as on canvas.
Baron L.N. de Rothschild, A descriptive catalogue of the pictures at Piccadilly and at Gunnersbury Park numbering altogether 119, undated, p. 93, no. 6 (Rothschild Archive, London, 000/176/10), as ‘A rich assemblage of fruit, consisting of purple and white grapes, peaches, plums, apricots, raspberries, filberts and walnuts etc. some of which are disposed in a basket, and the remainder on a marble table, on which stand the basket - The fruit are mingled with a few flowers, consisting of cockscomb, hollyhock, forget-me-not etc, which partly conceal a classical vase adorned with nymphs in the back-ground on the left – various insects. Signed – ’.
A. Graves, F.S.A., A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912, London, 1914, IV, p. 1543.
C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart and Paris, 1928, X, p. 376, no. 191, where erroneously described as on canvas.
M.H. Grant, Jan van Huysum, 1682-1749, Leigh-on-Sea, 1954, pp. 27 and 31, nos. 151 and 211, where erroneously described as on canvas and with wrong measurements.
S.H. Pavière, A Dictionary of Flower, Fruit and Still Life Painters, Leigh-on-Sea, I, 1962, p. 36.
'Around the Salerooms', Country Life, 12 February 2004, p. 74, fig. 2.
S. Segal, in The Temptations of Flora: Jan van Huysum, 1682-1749, exhibition catalogue, Waanders, 2007, pp. 61, 162-165, 203, 213, 246, 255, 355, no. F8, illustrated in colour.
P. Taylor, 'Review: The Temptations of Flora', Oud Holland, CXXI, no. 4, 2008, p. 261.
D. Davis, 'A rite of social passage: Gunnersbury Park, 1835-1925, a Rothschild family villa', Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, XVIII, 2019, pp. 12 and 21, note 72, with partially erroneous provenance.
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, London, 1835, VI, p. 476, no. 57; Supplement, 1842, IX, p. 788, no. 10, where erroneously described as on canvas).
G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854, II, p. 256, where erroneously described as on canvas.
Baron L.N. de Rothschild, A descriptive catalogue of the pictures at Piccadilly and at Gunnersbury Park numbering altogether 119, undated, p. 93, no. 6 (Rothschild Archive, London, 000/176/10), as ‘A rich assemblage of fruit, consisting of purple and white grapes, peaches, plums, apricots, raspberries, filberts and walnuts etc. some of which are disposed in a basket, and the remainder on a marble table, on which stand the basket - The fruit are mingled with a few flowers, consisting of cockscomb, hollyhock, forget-me-not etc, which partly conceal a classical vase adorned with nymphs in the back-ground on the left – various insects. Signed – ’.
A. Graves, F.S.A., A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912, London, 1914, IV, p. 1543.
C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart and Paris, 1928, X, p. 376, no. 191, where erroneously described as on canvas.
M.H. Grant, Jan van Huysum, 1682-1749, Leigh-on-Sea, 1954, pp. 27 and 31, nos. 151 and 211, where erroneously described as on canvas and with wrong measurements.
S.H. Pavière, A Dictionary of Flower, Fruit and Still Life Painters, Leigh-on-Sea, I, 1962, p. 36.
'Around the Salerooms', Country Life, 12 February 2004, p. 74, fig. 2.
S. Segal, in The Temptations of Flora: Jan van Huysum, 1682-1749, exhibition catalogue, Waanders, 2007, pp. 61, 162-165, 203, 213, 246, 255, 355, no. F8, illustrated in colour.
P. Taylor, 'Review: The Temptations of Flora', Oud Holland, CXXI, no. 4, 2008, p. 261.
D. Davis, 'A rite of social passage: Gunnersbury Park, 1835-1925, a Rothschild family villa', Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, XVIII, 2019, pp. 12 and 21, note 72, with partially erroneous provenance.
Exhibited
London, Christie’s, The Matchless Collection of Dutch and Flemish Pictures, of His Late Royal Highness The Duke de Berri, April 1834, lot 68 (offered at 600 gns. but unsold).
London, British Institution, 1838, no. 89 (lent by Charles Heusch).
Liverpool, Liverpool City School of Art, Exhibition of Works by Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century, 22-29 September 1944, no. 8, where erroneously catalogued as previously in the collection of Alphonse de Rothschild.
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition: Dutch Pictures, 1450-1750, 22 November 1952-1 March 1953, no. 482, lent by Miss Mary Fattorini.
York, City Art Gallery, 1989-2003, on loan.
Delft, Museum Het Prinsenhof; and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Temptations of Flora: Jan van Huysum, 1682-1749, 22 September 2006-13 May 2007, no. F8.
London, British Institution, 1838, no. 89 (lent by Charles Heusch).
Liverpool, Liverpool City School of Art, Exhibition of Works by Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century, 22-29 September 1944, no. 8, where erroneously catalogued as previously in the collection of Alphonse de Rothschild.
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition: Dutch Pictures, 1450-1750, 22 November 1952-1 March 1953, no. 482, lent by Miss Mary Fattorini.
York, City Art Gallery, 1989-2003, on loan.
Delft, Museum Het Prinsenhof; and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Temptations of Flora: Jan van Huysum, 1682-1749, 22 September 2006-13 May 2007, no. F8.
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Director, Head of Evening Sale