Jan Brueghel Complete Catalog | Basket of Flowers (New York)

Object type	Painting
Genre	Flower Still-Life and Nature Study
Date	ca. 1620
Dimensions	47 x 68.3 cm
Support	Panel
Medium	Oil
Collaborators	Jan Brueghel the Younger
Our attribution	Produced in Jan Brueghel's Studio
Other authorities	Ertz 2008-10, #453 Metropolitan Museum of Art as Jan Brueghel the Younger
Location	New York, NY, United States
Collection	Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession numbers	inv. # 67.187.58, as Jan Brueghel the Younger
Tags	Insects, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Basket, Flowers
External resources	Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ertz 2008-10, cat. 453
Winkelmann- Rhein 1968, pp.36

Jun 24 1946 to Oct 5 1956	Hartford, CT	On loan to Wadsworth Atheneum
1967	New York, NY	Bequeathed by Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot to Metropolitan Museum of Art (as Jan Brueghel the Younger)

E.A. Honig

June 27, 2015

Several variations of this painting exist (many by JBII):

one on art market Amsterdam (Christie's 11.v.94 #170) as Jan Brueghel the Younger; RKD calls it “circle of JBII."
A poor copy of same size was sold in The Hague (Van Marle & Bignell 26/27.ii.41 #6).
Another on panel, 50 x 45 cm, sold in New York (Christie's 18.i.84 #6 as Ambrosius Brueghel).
A poor copy on copper (18 x 32 cm) sold London (Sotheby's 17.iv.96 #677).
A copy on panel (55.9 x 73.6), sold by Durlacher Bros, New York.
A copy on panel (34 x 55 cm), including a Chalice with grapes and a wine flute, sold at Christie's, London, July 10, 1998 # 10

Ashley Jerbic

June 12, 2012

Identified flowers within the composition are hyacinths, orange lilies, and Turk’s cap lilies.