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Flowers in a Sculpted Vase Beside a Wreath of Flowers (Gundelfingen)

Flowers in a Sculpted Vase Beside a Wreath of Flowers (Gundelfingen)

Object type Painting
Genre Flower Still-Life and Nature Study
Date ca. 1618
Dimensions 38.5 x 59.2 cm
Support Panel
Medium Oil
Signature BRUEGHEL
Our attribution Produced in Jan Brueghel's Studio
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #459
Ertz 1984, #290 as Jan the Younger
Location/Most Recent Sale Possibly sold Christie's, New York, June 6 2012
Tags Vase, Flowers
Hairs 1965, pp. 67, 361 #4 as Jan the Elder
Ertz 1979, pp. 297, 299, 532 fig. 373 as Jan the Younger
Hairs 1985, pp. 42, 46 fig. 13
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #459
1927 Belga Kiallita (label on the back of the painting)
Dec 1939 to Feb 1940 Amsterdam Pieter de Boer
19th century to 20th century Amsterdam Hendrik Doodeheefver
1959 London Sale, Sotheby's
London L. Koetser Gallery (label on the back of the frame)
G. H. Dixon
1973 London Sale, Christie's
London Richard Green Gallery
1979 London Private Collection
1991 to 1998 Manchester On laon to the Manchester City Art Gallery
E.A. Honig
June 17, 2014

Two close copies exist containing only the vase of flowers: one with twig of leaves/flowers and bugs in the foreground, was sold by Sotheby's, London, July 8th, 1981, #42 (with figure). Another sold in London, 1959, formerly in the P. Donk collection.

Another variant by Jan Brueghel the Younger (26.6 x 40.5 cm) combines the vase of flowers here with the flower arrangement from Flowers in a Porcelain Bowl (Madrid). Paris, De Jonckheere, 2002.

The present work was exhibited at TEFAF, Maastricht, 1995.