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Ambrosius Bosschaert, the Younger Arnemuiden, Middleburg 1609 - 1645 Utrecht
Description
- Ambrosius Bosschaert, the Younger
- A tulip, a yellow iris, a sprig of moss rose, a snake's head fritillery, roses, peonies, forget-me-not, lily-of-the-valley and other blooms in a bronze vase with gilt mounts, on a ledge flanked with a shell and a marigold
- signed with monogram and dated lower right: AB 1627
- oil on silver
Provenance
For a comment on the earlier provenance see the footnote above;
With P. de Boer, Amsterdam;
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Sotheby's, 12 December 1972, lot 8 (as Ambrosius Bosschaert), for £26,000 to Brod;
With Thomas Brod, London, 1972;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 11 December 1984, lot 72;
With Galerie d'Art St. Honoré, Paris, 1985;
With K.J. Mullenmeister, Solingen, 1989-90;
Bought by the present owner in 1995.
Literature
S. Segal, in Masters of Middelburg, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam 1984, pp. 65-6, reproduced p. 67, no. 18 (as an early work by Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger);
E. Gemar-Koeltzsch, Luca Bild-Lexikon. Holländische Stillebenmaler im 17. Jahrhundert, Lingen 1995, vol. 2, p. 172, no. 52/2, reproduced in colour vol. 1, p. 125.
Catalogue Note
This and a picture in Detroit, Institute of Arts, are Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger's earliest dated works. As Sam Segal was the first to notice, the present work, and at least two other unsigned pictures (in Enschede, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, and formerly Amsterdam, Gallery P. de Boer), are loosely derived from a work by the artist's father, Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, of 1621 (see under Literature).
It was only in 1935 that Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger's oeuvre was separated from that of his more illustrious father, and confusion over the latter's date of death have perpetuated the problem, which is probably why this picture and at least two others have been confused in the literature. A close comparison between the present work and the reproduction of the unsigned painting in Laurens Bol's book makes it clear that this is not the unsigned work on panel formerly in the Victor Decock collection in Paris that Bol assigns to a pupil in Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder's studio (see L.J. Bol, The Bosschaert Dynasty, Leigh-on-Sea 1960, p. 68, cat. no. 49, reproduced plate 28a). Some of the provenance cited by Bol may however refer to the present work, so it is reproduced here:
R.H. Ward, Hampstead, 1932 (as Balthasar van der Ast), apparently lent to the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford, in that year;
With L. Groeneveld Galerie, The Hague, 1935;
Victor Decock, Paris, by 1948
His sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 12 May 1948, lot 26, reproduced plate VII (as Abraham Brueghel);
Anonymous sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 9 December 1952, lot 16, reproduced (as Abraham Brueghel).