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Tazza with Flowers Tumbling over the Bowl

Tazza with Flowers Tumbling over the Bowl

Object type Drawing
Genre Flower Still-Life and Nature Study
Dimensions 27.9 x 37.4 cm
Support Paper
Medium Pen and brown ink, with brown wash
Further inscription "Jan Bruegel" (later hand?); Middle: "siringa" (probably by artist)
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Bailey/Walker cat. #LOND.BM.12
Location London, England
Collection British Museum
Accession numbers RN 1895,0915.1012
Tags Tazza, Vase, Flowers
External resources British Museum
Robinson 1876, nr. 554
Hind 1915, nr. 10
Bernt 1957-58, vol. 1, nr. 133, fig. 133
Winner 1961, p. 237, fig. 47
Ertz 1979, p. 288-289, fig. 358, nr. 269, p. 602
Brenninkmeyer-de Rooij 1990 a, p. 231-2, fig. 15, note 58 (compares with a Bruegel picture of the same subject, sold Sotheby's, Monaco, 2 December 1989, lot 322)
London 1996-97, Appx.
Essen/Vienna 1997-98, p. 290, fig. 1, nr. 87
London 1996-97, Appx.
London 1990 (British Museum, Treasures of P&D [no cat.])
Essen/Vienna 1997-98, under nr. 87
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19th century Poltalloch John Malcolm of Poltalloch
17th century to 18th century London Jonathan Richardson Senior (Lugt 2184)
1895 Col. John Wingfield Malcolm
Paige Walker
August 2, 2013

British Museum website: "The signature is probably not by Jan Brueghel the Elder (Brueghel usually signs with 'Jean' or 'Giovanni' and 'Brueghel' with 'h'). It is not clear if this quickly made sketch is a preparatory study for a painting or rather a 'ricordo' of a painting that had left the artist's studio; no painting showing the exact composition is known. Similar flower arrangements paintings are now in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena (inv.no.F.1972.13.P, attributed to his son Jan Brueghel the Younger) and others recently on the art market (see 'Old Master Paintings including the Henle Collection', Sotheby's London, 3 and 4 December 1997, p.81, under no.38; 'Importants Tableaux Anciens', Sotheby's Monaco, 2 and 3 December 1989, p.42, under no.322, p.41, fig.322 (also at Sotheby's New York 26 Jan. 2006 lot 17), and Sotheby's New York, 15 January 1993, lot 87."