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Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder

Still Life with Tulips, Roses, Narcissi, and Other Flowers in a Glass Beaker

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May 21, 02:59 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

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Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder

Antwerp 1573 - 1621 The Hague

Still Life with Tulips, Roses, Narcissi, and Other Flowers in a Glass Beaker


signed lower left: · A.B · 

oil on copper

copper: 9 ⅞ by 6 ⅝ in.; 25.1 by 16.8 cm

framed: 13 ½ by 10 ¼ in.; 34.3 by 26.0 cm

Hungarian noble family, by the late 19th century;

From whom acquired by a private collector, circa 1955;

Thence by descent to Roman Herzig, Vienna;

From whom acquired via private sale, Sotheby's, New York, by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III, 2013.

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 2.

L. J. Bol, The Bosschaert Dynasty:  Painters of Flowers and Fruit, Leigh-on-Sea 1960, p. 61, cat. no. 16, reproduced plate 10;

A.K. Wheelock Jr., in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock, Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 23-25, 164, cat. no. 2, reproduced.