Jan Davidsz. de Heem
Still Life of Roses, Tulips, Lilies, Poppies, Honeysuckle, a Sunflower, an Iris, and Other Flowers in a Glass Vase with Two Birds, a Grasshopper, and a Snail
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May 21, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD
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Jan Davidsz. de Heem
Utrecht 1606 - 1684 Antwerp
Still Life of Roses, Tulips, Lilies, Poppies, Honeysuckle, a Sunflower, an Iris, and Other Flowers in a Glass Vase with Two Birds, a Grasshopper, and a Snail
signed lower center on stone ledge: J.D. De Heem
oil on canvas
canvas: 39 ½ by 30 ⅛ in.; 100.3 by 76.5 cm
framed: 50 ½ by 40 ¾ in.; 128.3 by 103.5 cm
Possibly Alexandre d'Allard, Vienna;
Possibly his posthumous sale, Vienna, Artaria, 28 November 1821, lot 151;
Wieser collection, Vienna;
Baroness Auguste Stummer von Tavarnok (1848-1896), by 1895;
By whose estate sold, Vienna, C.J. Wawra, 20 April 1931, lot 27, where acquired for 8,000 Austrian Schilling;
Mrs. Signe Streletsckie, Stockholm, 1942;
A. Savabini, Geneva, by 1971;
Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Gentleman"), London, Christie's, 24 March 1972, lot 53;
Where acquired by Leger Galleries, London, for 40,000 gns.;
From whom acquired by Alexander Galleries, London, 1979;
From whom acquired by a private collector, 1979;
From whom acquired via private sale, Sotheby's, New York, by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III, 1999.
T. von Frimmel, Verzeichnis der Gemälde im Besitze der Frau Baronin Auguste Stummer von Tavarnok, Vienna 1895, p. 32, cat. no. 81;
"Aus drei berühmten Sammlungen," in Internationale Sammler-Zeitung (15 April 1931), p. 89;
M.L. Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Brussels and Paris 1955, p. 222;
M.L. Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Brussels 1965, p. 387;
Fanfare for Europe: The British Art Market 1973, London 1973, p. 224, reproduced;
International Art Treasures Exhibition 1973, exhibition catalogue, Bath 1973, p. 1, cat. no. 5, reproduced pl. 49;
E. Greindl, Les peintres flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siècle, Brussels 1983, p. 361, cat. no. 82;
F.G. Meijer, "Jan Davidsz. de Heem, 1606-1684," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Amsterdam 2016, vol. I, pp. 257, 265-269, 324, 386, reproduced; vol. II, pp. 280-281, cat. no. A 248;
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. 89-91, 171-172, cat. no. 19, reproduced;
F.G. Meijer, Opulence Distilled, The Still Lifes of Jan Davidsz. de Heem, exhibition catalogue, Antwerp 2024, p. 92, reproduced fig. 105;
F.G. Meijer, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, 1606-1684, Zwolle 2024, vol. II, p. 656, cat. no. 257, reproduced.
Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, 1971, long-term loan (lent by Monsieur A. Savabini);
Bath, Assembly Rooms, International Art Treasures Exhibition, 11 August - 8 September 1973, no. 5 (lent by Leger Galleries, London);
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. 19.
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