Jan van Kessel the Elder
Sprig of Gooseberries with a Dragonfly, Butterflies, Beetles, and a Bee
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May 21, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jan van Kessel the Elder
Antwerp 1626 - 1679
Sprig of Gooseberries with a Dragonfly, Butterflies, Beetles, and a Bee
oil on copper
copper: 5 ½ by 7 ⅜ in.; 14.0 by 18.7 cm
framed: 9 ¼ by 11 ⅜ in.; 23.5 by 28.9 cm
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 28 January 2000, lot 116;
Where acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.
K. Ertz and C. Nitze-Ertz, Die Maler Jan van Kessel, Lingen 2012, p. 277, cat. no. 431, reproduced (as cat. no. 430);
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. 65-69, 169, cat. no. 13, 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. 13.