Jan Davidsz. de Heem
Still Life of Roses, Tulips, Lilies, Poppies, Honeysuckle, a Sunflower, an Iris, and Other Flowers in a Glass Vase with Two Birds, a Grasshopper, and a Snail
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May 21, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD
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Jan Davidsz. de Heem
Utrecht 1606 - 1684 Antwerp
Still Life of Roses, Tulips, Lilies, Poppies, Honeysuckle, a Sunflower, an Iris, and Other Flowers in a Glass Vase with Two Birds, a Grasshopper, and a Snail
signed lower center on stone ledge: J.D. De Heem
oil on canvas
canvas: 39 ½ by 30 ⅛ in.; 100.3 by 76.5 cm
framed: 50 ½ by 40 ¾ in.; 128.3 by 103.5 cm
Possibly Alexandre d'Allard, Vienna;
Possibly his posthumous sale, Vienna, Artaria, 28 November 1821, lot 151;
Wieser collection, Vienna;
Baroness Auguste Stummer von Tavarnok (1848-1896), by 1895;
By whose estate sold, Vienna, C.J. Wawra, 20 April 1931, lot 27, where acquired for 8,000 Austrian Schilling;
Mrs. Signe Streletsckie, Stockholm, 1942;
A. Savabini, Geneva, by 1971;
Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Gentleman"), London, Christie's, 24 March 1972, lot 53;
Where acquired by Leger Galleries, London, for 40,000 gns.;
From whom acquired by Alexander Galleries, London, 1979;
From whom acquired by a private collector, 1979;
From whom acquired via private sale, Sotheby's, New York, by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III, 1999.
Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, 1971, long-term loan (lent by Monsieur A. Savabini);
Bath, Assembly Rooms, International Art Treasures Exhibition, 11 August - 8 September 1973, no. 5 (lent by Leger Galleries, London);
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. 19.
T. von Frimmel, Verzeichnis der Gemälde im Besitze der Frau Baronin Auguste Stummer von Tavarnok, Vienna 1895, p. 32, cat. no. 81;
"Aus drei berühmten Sammlungen," in Internationale Sammler-Zeitung (15 April 1931), p. 89;
M.L. Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Brussels and Paris 1955, p. 222;
M.L. Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Brussels 1965, p. 387;
Fanfare for Europe: The British Art Market 1973, London 1973, p. 224, reproduced;
International Art Treasures Exhibition 1973, exhibition catalogue, Bath 1973, p. 1, cat. no. 5, reproduced pl. 49;
E. Greindl, Les peintres flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siècle, Brussels 1983, p. 361, cat. no. 82;
F.G. Meijer, "Jan Davidsz. de Heem, 1606-1684," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Amsterdam 2016, vol. I, pp. 257, 265-269, 324, 386, reproduced; vol. II, pp. 280-281, cat. no. A 248;
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. 89-91, 171-172, cat. no. 19, reproduced;
F.G. Meijer, Opulence Distilled, The Still Lifes of Jan Davidsz. de Heem, exhibition catalogue, Antwerp 2024, p. 92, reproduced fig. 105;
F.G. Meijer, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, 1606-1684, Zwolle 2024, vol. II, p. 656, cat. no. 257, reproduced.
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