Osias Beert the Elder

Private collection, England;

With Dennis van der Kar Gallery, London;

With David and Leonard Koetser, Zurich;

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 13 March 1980, lot 104, for $22,000;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 8 July 1981, lot 60, where unsold;

With Harari & Johns, London;

From whom acquired in 1982 for the Grasset Collection.

E. Greindl, Les Peintres Flamands de Nature Morte au XVIIe Siècle, Brussels 1983, pp. 28 and 337, no. 61;

M.-L. Hairs, The Flemish Flower Painters in the XVIIth Century, Brussels 1985, pp. 341 and 457;

S. Segal, 'Objecten in stillevens van de Gouden Eeuw', in Oude Kunst- en Antiekbeurs Delft (Prinsenhof), vol. 43e, 1991, p. XV, reproduced in colour, p. XIV, fig. 1;

F.G. Meijer, Brueghel to Canaletto, European Masterpieces from the Grasset Collection, exh. cat., San Diego 2016, p. 10, no. 4, reproduced in colour;

S. Thomas, A Feast for the Eyes, European Masterpieces from the Grasset Collection, exh. cat., Saint Petersburg, Florida 2019, pp. 30 and 95, no. 9, reproduced in colour;

S. Segal and K. Alen, Dutch and Flemish Flower Pieces: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints up to the Nineteenth Century, Leiden and Boston 2020, vol. 1, pp. 239–41, no. 6.33, reproduced in colour;

To be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné by Dr Klara Alen, Osias Beert. Pioneer of the Antwerp laid table and flower still life.