Tulips, roses, peonies, narcissus, and other flowers with a butterfly in an urn, with grapes on the vine and a bird's nest with eggs and ants on a marble ledge

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Pieter Faes (1750-1814 Antwerp)
Tulips, roses, peonies, narcissus, and other flowers with a butterfly in an urn, with grapes on the vine and a bird's nest with eggs and ants on a marble ledge
with signature 'Van Huysum' (lower right)
oil on canvas, with additions of approximately 2 in. to each edge
31 x 25½ in. (78.7 x 64.7 cm.)
in an 18th Century carved and gilded frame

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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Mr. Fred Meijer of the RKD for the attribution, given on the basis of a transparency; Mr. Meijer dates the picture to the early 1780s. For a similar signed and dated work by the artist see that sold, Sotheby's, New York, 5 June 2002, lot 14 ($229,500).

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