LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

9.37 in. (23.80 cm.) (height) by 13.58 in. (34.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'B. van der. Ast..' (lower left)

Condition:

In an early seventeenth-century, figured, ebony, cassetta frame (supplied by Wiggins, ref. 11053).

Exhibited:

Washington, The National Gallery of Art, From Botany to Bouquets. Flowers in Northern Art, 31 January-31 May 1999, no. 6. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum; and Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Still-Life Paintings from the Netherlands 1550-1720, 19 June 1999-9 January 2000, no. 23. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and London, The National Gallery, Vermeer and the Delft School, 8 March-16 September 2001, no. 4.

Literature:

S. Segal, in Masters of Middelburg, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, 1984, pp. 16 and 61, note 27, fig. 16 (caption for fig. 14). H. Devisscher, S. Beele, et al., Bloemen in de schilderkunst van de 16de tot de 20ste eeuw, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, 1996, p. 20, fig. 10. A. Rüger, in Vermeer and the Delft School, exhibition catalogue, New Haven and London, 2001, pp. 218-9, no. 4. L. Prosperetti-Van Hogendorp, 'Conchas Legere. Shells as trophies of. repose in northern European Humanism', Art History, XXIX, June 2006, p. 402, fig. 2.9. P. Weideger, W. Bennett, D. Cawdell, and G. Harris, Celebrating the best twenty five years of TEFAF Maastricht, Antwerp, 2012, pp. 75-7, illustrated.

Provenance:

Cadwalader collection, Philadelphia, until 1975, when sold to Clyde Newhouse, New York. with Edward Speelman, London, 1975, by whom sold to. Jean and Claire Thèves, St. Nom la Brèteche, Paris; Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1996, lot 24 (£529,500). with Otto Naumann Ltd., New York, from whom acquired at The European Fine Art Fair, Maastricht, on 16 March 1998, by. Pieter and Olga Dreesmann (inventory no. B2).