LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

12.01 in. (30.50 cm.) (height) by 15.94 in. (40.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'B. van der ast' (lower left, on the ledge)

Exhibited:

Amsterdam, Pieter de Boer, De helsche en de fluweelen Brueghel en hun invloed op de kunst in de Nederlanden, 10 February - 26 March 1934, no. 235. Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, Boom, Bloem en Plant: Nederlandse meesters uit vijf eeuwen, 16 July - 31 August 1955, no. 6 (lent by L.A. Stroink, Enschede).

Literature:

L.J. Bol, the Bosschaert Dynasty: Painters of flowers and fruit, Leigh-on-Sea, 1960, p. 76, no. 47, pl. 41a.

Provenance:

with Pieter de Boer, Amsterdam, by 1934. Ludwig Arnold Stroink (1886-1969), Enschede, by 1955. Anonymous sale; Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 7 April 1970, lot 2.