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.
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.
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.