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Flowers in a Glass Vase (Zurich)

Flowers in a Glass Vase (Zurich)

Object type Painting
Genre Flower Still-Life and Nature Study
Date ca. 1608
Dimensions 41.5 x 33.5 cm
Support Panel
Medium Oil
Our attribution Produced in Jan Brueghel's Studio
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #422
Ertz 1979, #181 as uncertain, possibly studio
Freedberg as rejected
Meijer in Oxford 2003 as doubtful
Location/Most Recent Sale Zürich, Collection of David M. Koetser, 1979)
Tags Insects, Glass, Vase, Flowers
Ertz 1979, cat. #181
Brenninkmeijer-de Rooij 1996, p. 80
Oxford 2003, pp. 186-87 notes 2 & 3
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #422
Brueghel Exhibition by art dealer P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1934, cat. #275
1930 Collection of M.A. de Huebel
Amsterdam Cohen Collection
1942 Seized by Hitler
1945 Salzburg Stored in Salzburg until the end of the war
1946 Restored to the Cohen Family Collection by the Allies
Jan 13 1978 New York, NY Sale, Sotheby's (Parke-Bernet) Lot #127
E.A. Honig
June 27, 2015

This painting is a variation of Flowers in a Glass Vase (Milan).
A very close copy (oil on panel, 47 x 34.5 cm) missing only the two loose buds at lower left foreground in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. By Jan Brueghel the Younger/Atelier of Jan Brueghel the Elder. Ward Bequest, #17. Cat. 1980, #17, #A 541, fig. 21, 1950; 2003 cat. pp. 186-187.