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Bouquet with Mourning Iris in a Stoneware Vase

Bouquet with Mourning Iris in a Stoneware Vase

Object type Painting
Genre Flower Still-Life and Nature Study
Date 1607-1608
Dimensions 66 x 52 cm
Support Panel
Medium Oil
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 1979, #167
Ertz 2008-10, #437
RKD (Meijer) as Jan the Elder
Location/Most Recent Sale London, Sotheby's, December 5, 2012, inv. #35 for 713,250 GPB
Tags Insects, Vase, Flowers, Jewels
Grosse 1936, p. 24, fig. 31
Hairs 1965, pp. 66, 363, #34, fig. 159
Ertz 1979, cat. #167
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #437
Winkelmann- Rhein 1968, pp.22, 35
Currie & Allart 2012, pp. 243
Vienna, Secession, Drei Jahrhunderte flämische Kunst 1400-1700, 1930, #9
Vienna, Galerie Sanct Lucas, Die jüngeren Brueghel und ihr Kreis, 1935
ca. 1930 to ca. 1938 Vienna Acquired by Julius Kien by 1930 until his involuntary sale in 1938
1938 Berlin Acquired by Johannes Hinrichsen from the above
Berlin Acquired by Fritz Thyssen (from the above
Oct 1939 Berlin Confiscated from the above by the National Socialists
After 1951 Berlin Restituted to Fritz Thyssen's widow, Amélie, and his daugher, Anita
1987 Bavaria Purchased from Anita Amélie, Countess Zichy-Thyssen, by the Free State of Bavaria in 1987
1992 Munich Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (accessioned in 1992)
2012 Restituted to the heirs of Julius Kien
Ashley Jerbic
April 25, 2014

Brueghel juxtaposed flowers of all seasons to create a mystical picture of paradise. Within this specific composition, snowdrops, daffodils, narcissus, grape hyacinths, cornflowers, pansies, buttercups, and bluebells from the field are integrated with flowers from the cultivated garden. Roses, carnations, tulips, orange lilies, and irises from the cultivated garden mingled with the field flowers to produce an exotic appeal.