Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher
Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher
Property from a German Private Collection
Jan Breughel the Younger
Still life with flowers in a basket and in a gilt tazza
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December 9, 02:18 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a German Private Collection
Jan Breughel the Younger
Antwerp 1601 - 1678
Still life with flowers in a basket and in a gilt tazza
oil on oak panel
unframed: 54.9 x 91.2 cm.; 21⅝ x 35⅞ in.
framed: 68.9 x 105.2 cm.; 27⅛ x 41⅜in.
Otto Lowengart, Milwaukee, 1979;
From whom purchased by a Midwest private collector, USA;
By whom anonymously sold (‘The Property of a Midwest Collector’), New York, Christie’s, 17 June 2004, lot 23, where acquired.
This composition exists in several autograph versions by Jan Breughel the Younger, including that in the Ardenne collection, Dordrecht,1 and the painting sold at Sotheby’s, London, 14 December 2000, lot 10 (for £212,500).2 These works are themselves related to a painting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (in which the basket, tazza and blooms on the ledge are all in slightly different positions), which is ultimately based on designs attributed to Jan Brueghel the Elder.3
1 K. Ertz, Jan Breughel the Younger (1601–1678), Freren 1984, pp. 450–51, no. 287, reproduced p. 451.
2 https://rkd.nl/explore/images/102443
3 https://www.mfab.hu/artworks/weaved-basket-and-tazza-with-flowers/