NICOLAES DE VREE | A FOREST FLOOR STILL LIFE WITH BUTTERFLIES
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NICOLAES DE VREE
Amsterdam 1645 - 1702 Alkmaar
A FOREST FLOOR STILL LIFE WITH BUTTERFLIES
signed in red lower right: Nicolaes de Vree; and later inscribed over this in black: de vreé fecit
oil on canvas
unframed: 113.5 x 88.5 cm.; 44⅝ x 34⅞ in.
framed: 140.9 x 115.8 cm.; 55½ x 45½ in.
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Anonymous sale, Paris, Ader Picard Tajan, 29 June 1989, lot 60, for 435,411.70 French Francs;
Anonymous sale ('Property of a Private Collector'), New York, Sotheby’s, 31 January 2013, lot 151.
C.G. Marcus, 'Otto Marseus van Schrieck et les peintres de reptiles, insectes et sous-bois', in Art et Curiosité, August–September 1974, p. 88, reproduced fig. 14.
This canvas relates to Nicolaes de Vree's Statue in a park in the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg (inv. no. ГЭ-1028).1 The still life depicted in the left of the Hermitage picture is remarkably similar to the present composition, with the dark, bosky atmosphere punctuated with bursts of colour, in the form of the flowers and butterflies. This painting also exhibits the influence of artists such as Abraham Jansz. Begeyn and Otto Marseus van Schrieck.
1 https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/01.+paintings/40783