Jan van Kessel the Elder
Butterflies, Spiders, Lizards, a Beetle, an Ant, a Grasshopper, and Other Insects
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May 21, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD
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Jan van Kessel the Elder
Antwerp 1626 - 1679
Butterflies, Spiders, Lizards, a Beetle, an Ant, a Grasshopper, and Other Insects
oil on copper, laid down on panel
panel: 15 ¾ by 22 ¼ in.; 40.0 by 56.5 cm
framed: 22 ½ by 29 ⅛ in.; 57.2 by 74.0 cm
Private collector, France;
Thence by descent to his son;
By whom anonymously sold ("Property of a French Private Collection"), New York, Sotheby's, 25 May 2000, lot 109;
Where acquired by Johnny van Haeften, London;
From whom acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 12.
K. Schütz, in Das Flämische Stilleben, Sinn und Sinnlichkeit, exhibition catalogue, K. Ertz (ed.), Vienna and Essen 2002, p. 98, reproduced fig. 29c;
K. Ertz and C. Nitze-Ertz, Die Maler Jan van Kessel, Lingen 2012, pp. 85-88, 256, cat. no. 357, reproduced figs. 86, 86a;
A.K. Wheelock, Jr., in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock, Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 62-64, 168-169, cat. no. 12, reproduced.
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