LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Measurements:

21.65 in. (55.00 cm.) (height) by 39.65 in. (100.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed lower right, on the ledge: · B · vander · Ast ·

Exhibited:

London, Eugene Slatter Gallery,. Paintings of life and still-life by Dutch and Flemish masters of the seventeenth century , 22 May - 6 July 1946, no. 25, reproduced;. Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, 1963, no. 3; . London, Richard Green, Exhibition of Old Master and English Paintings , 1989, no. 5

Literature:

L.J. Bol,. The Bosschaert Dynasty, Painters of flowers and fruit , Leigh-on-Sea 1960, p. 85, no. 115

Provenance:

With Eugene Slatter Gallery, London, 1946;. De Mauduit collection, Paris, by 1963; . Sir Robert Bird, 2nd Baronet (1876-1650); . His sale, Paris, Musée Galliéra, 1 April 1965, lot 2; . Private collection, Switzerland; . Anonymous sale ('Monsieur G..'), Paris, Ader Picard Tajan, 14 April 1989, lot 215; . With Richard Green, London, by November 1989, when advertised in The Burlington Magazine , no. 1040, vol. CXXXI; . Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 July 1998, lot 40, for £300,000; . Where acquired by the present owner