LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Measurements:
50.00 in. (127.00 cm.) (height) by 40.94 in. (104.00 cm.) (width)
Exhibited:
Taichung, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, ; The Golden Age of Flemish Painting, 1988, no. 54;;
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, 4 September – 22 November 1992; Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 12 December 1992 – 8 March 1993; and Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 2 April – 20 June 1993, ; Von ; Bruegel bis Rubens, no. 99.1.
Literature:
Probably W. Couvreur, 'Daniel Seghers' inventaris van door hem geschilderde bloemstukken', in ; Gentse bijdragen tot de kunstgeschiedenis, vol. XX, 1967, p. 112, no. 135;;
M.-L. Hairs, ; Dans le sillage de Rubens, les peintres d'histoire anversois au XVIIe siècle, Liège 1977, p. 213;;
M.-L. Hairs, ; The Flemish Flower Painters in the XVIIth Century, Brussels 1985, pp. 125–29, cat. no. 33,; a detail reproduced p. 130;;
G. Wilmers, ; Corneli Schut (1597–1655): a Flemish Painter of the High Baroque, Belgium 1996, pp. 172–73, cat. no. A108, reproduced p. 413 (erroneously as cat. no. A110).
Provenance:
Probably commissioned by Willem de Blasere, Lord of Hellebus, Ghent, ; <em>circa</em> 1635, and recorded in Seghers’ inventory as no. 135;; <br>With Galerie Marcus, Paris, 1970–74:; <br>From whom acquired by the present owner.