LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

14.96 in. (38.00 cm.) (height) by 11.69 in. (29.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears signature lower right: AB Mignon (AB in ligature)

Exhibited:

Frankfurt-am-Main, Historisches Museum (inv. LG. 95:6), on loan, June 1995-2009 (as by Mignon); Frankfurt-am-Main, Historisches Museum, Maria Sibylla Merian,1647-1710, Künstlerin und Naturforscherin, 1997, no. 23 (as by Mignon); Haarle, Teylers Museum, Maria Sibylla Merian, 1647-1717, Kunstenares en Natuuronderzoekster, 14 March-31 May 1998, no. 23 (as by Mignon).

Literature:

K. Wettengl, Maria Sibylla Merian,1647-1710, Künstlerin und Naturforscherin, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt 1997, p. 47, no. 23, reproduced p. 49, as by Abraham Mignon (and Dutch ed., Maria Sibylla Merian 1647-1717) Kunstenares en Natuuronderzoekster, Haarlem 1998, with same pagination).

Provenance:

Private collection, Frankfurt.