Jan Brueghel the Elder

A lavish still life of many flowers in a terracotta vase resting on a wooden ledge, flanked by a clump of cyclamen and scattered diamonds and sapphires | 《靜物：木檯上赤陶瓶中的絢爛花卉，伴一簇仙客來、幾顆鑽石及藍寶石》

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Jan Brueghel the Elder

Brussels 1568 - 1625 Antwerp

A lavish still life of many flowers in a terracotta vase resting on a wooden ledge, flanked by a clump of cyclamen and scattered diamonds and sapphires

signed and dated lower left : BRVEGHEL 1605 (or 7).

oil on oak panel, three vertical planks, marouflaged

50 x 39.5 cm.; 19¾ x 15½ in.

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老楊・布呂赫爾

1568年生於布魯塞爾，1625年卒於安特衛普

《靜物：木檯上赤陶瓶中的絢爛花卉，伴一簇仙客來、幾顆鑽石及藍寶石》

款識：藝術家簽名並紀年BRVEGHEL 1605 .（左下）

油彩橡木貼畫板，三條垂直支撐板

50 x 39.5 公分；19¾ x 15½ 英寸

Private collection, England;

With Hallsborough Gallery Ltd., London;

With Galerie Nathan, Zurich, late 1950s;

Mr and Mrs Leigh B. Block, Chicago;

Their sale, New York, Sotheby's, 20 May 1981, lot 314;

With Noortman & Brod, London and New York, 1982–83;

From whom acquired by Jhr. Louis de Villeneuve (1923-2005), Wassenaer;

Thence by inheritance.

K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere: Die Gemälde, Cologne 1979, pp. 280–82, 585, cat. no. 165, (as painted c. 1607);

S. Segal, ‘Een vroeg bloemstuk van Jan Brueghel de Oude’, in Tableau, 4, no. 5, 1982, pp. 490–99;

M.L. Hairs, Flemish Flower Painters in the XVIIth Century, Brussels 1985, pp. 37, 463, (as dated 1603, 'chronology debatable');

S. Segal, ‘Exotische bollen als statussymbolen’, in Kunstschrift Openbaar Kunstbezit, 31, no. 3, 1987, p. 96;

S. Segal, in A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still-Life in The Netherlands 1600–1700, exh. cat., The Hague 1988, p. 100;

B. Brenninkmeyer-de Rooij, ‘Zeldzame Bloemen, ‘Fatta tutti del natturel’ door Jan Brueghel I’, in Oud Holland, 104, 1990, pp. 218–48;

H. Robels, in Von Brueghel bis Rubens: Das goldene Jahrhundert der flämischen Malerei, exh. cat., Vienna 1992, p. 212, n. 29;

P. van der Ploeg, in B. Brenninkmeijer-De Rooij (ed.), Bloei: Boeketten uit de Gouden eeuw, exh. cat., The Hague 1992, p. 70, no. 10, reproduced;

M.E. Wieseman, in P.C. Sutton, The Age of Rubens, exh. cat., Boston 1994, pp. 499–501, no. 95, reproduced p. 500;

N. Schneider, ‘Blumenstilleben der Frühen Neuzeit’, in Blumenstücke Kunststücke vom 17. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart, exh. cat., Bielefeld 1995–96, p. 19, reproduced fig. 4;

A. van der Willigen and F.G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-Life Painters Working in Oils 1525–1725, Leiden 2003, p. 54;

K. Ertz and C. Nitze-Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568–1625), Lingen 2008–10, vol. III, p. 919, no. 433, reproduced p. 927;

S. Segal & K. Allen, Dutch and Flemish Flower Pieces, Leiden 2021, vil. I, pp, 219-20, reproduced.