OTTO MARSEUS VAN SCHRIECK | Still life with flowers in a glass vase, on a marble ledge, with butterflies and moths

The earliest known works by van Schrieck are still lifes of flowers such as the present painting. Despite it being a subject he would embrace until the last decade of his life, there are far fewer of them than his forest floor still lifes, and they rarely appear on the art market. The present painting was in all probability painted in Italy, and dates to the same year as the artist's forest floor still life with the same blue morning glories today in the Staatliches Museum, Schwerin (inv. no. G154).(1)

1 Seelig 2017, reproduced in colour p. 191, fig. 153.