Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 38. A still life of white and red roses, a tulip, anemones, a hyacinth, a pansy, lily-of-the-valley, and other flowers in an ornamented glass vase on a hard-stone ledge, with a shell, a bluebottle and a Red Admiral butterfly.

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder

A still life of white and red roses, a tulip, anemones, a hyacinth, a pansy, lily-of-the-valley, and other flowers in an ornamented glass vase on a hard-stone ledge, with a shell, a bluebottle and a Red Admiral butterfly

Auction Closed

January 28, 04:44 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder

Antwerp 1573 - 1621 The Hague

A still life of white and red roses, a tulip, anemones, a hyacinth, a pansy, lily-of-the-valley, and other flowers in an ornamented glass vase on a hard-stone ledge, with a shell, a bluebottle and a Red Admiral butterfly


signed with monogram and dated lower right: .AB. 1621

oil on copper

13 ⅞ by 9 ⅞ in.; 35.2 by 25 cm.

By descent in a French private collection since at least the early nineteenth century;
By whom sold, Paris, Gros & Delettrez, 1 June 2012, lot 12;
There acquired by the present owner.