Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction

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Sold pursuant to a settlement agreement between the Collection of the late Dr Hermann Röchling and the heir of Margarete Eisenmann

Georg Flegel

Still life of lilies, tulips, roses and other flowers in a glass vase with a goldfinch, grasshopper, bread, and a glass, all on a stone ledge in a niche

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Auction Closed

July 5, 07:17 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Sold pursuant to a settlement agreement between the Collection of the late Dr Hermann Röchling and the heir of Margarete Eisenmann

Georg Flegel

Olomouc 1566–1638 Frankfurt

Still life of lilies, tulips, roses and other flowers in a glass vase with a goldfinch, grasshopper, bread, and a glass, all on a stone ledge in a niche

oil on canvas

63.5 x 45.1 cm.; 25 x 17¾ in.

Margarete Eisenmann (1867–1942), Berlin;

Her forced sale (‘Kunstsammlung und Wohnungseinrichtung Generalkonsul Eisenmann’), Berlin, Rudolph Lepke, 19 – 20 June 1935, lot 78 (as Dutch School, 17th century, signed and dated: J. A. A. […] 1638);

With Dr. Leyendecker (probably Dr. Herbert Leyendecker (1885-1958), Berlin and Wiesbaden), Berlin, by 1935 (as Jan A. Angermayer, presumably Johann Adalbert Angermeyer);

Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Phillips, 2 December 1997, lot 64 (as Flegel);

With Galerie Neuse, Bremen, 1999 (as Flegel);

From whom acquired.

H. Seifertová, 'Historici umění o Georgu Flegelovi v minulosti a dnes (Art historians on Georg Flegel in the Past and Today)', in Umění, vol. XLII, no. 4/5, 1994, pp. 379 and 381, reproduced p. 381, fig. 2 (as Jan A. Angermayer, and bearing a partial signature);

A.-D. Ketelsen-Volkhardt, Georg Flegel 1566–1638, Munich and Berlin 2003, pp. 48, 60, 123, 140, and 256–57, no. 55, reproduced in colour pl. 26.