After Jan Davidsz. De Heem

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Description

Jan Davidsz. de Heem
still life with flowers in a glass vase on a stone ledge before a niche, with a red admiral, a grasshopper, other insects and snails
oil on canvas

Provenance

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 7 February 1991, lot 194, where acquired by the present owners.

Catalogue Note

A copy, probably from the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, of an original by Jan Davidsz. de Heem today in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (inv. no. 1487, exhibited London, Peter Mitchell, Pick of the bunch from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1993, no. 4). Another copy is in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig (inv. no. 441) and M. Kraemer Noble (Abraham Mignon, 1973, p. 42, no. B68) records another larger copy (97.5 by 77 cm.) in an English private collection.