Lot 27: Ambrosius Bosschaert I (Antwerp 1573-1621 The Hague)

Ambrosius Bosschaert I (Antwerp 1573-1621 The Hague) Tulips, roses, bluebells, Narcissus tortuosis, forget-me-nots, lily of the valley and cyclamen in a flask on a stone ledge with a caterpillar, butterfly and dragonfly oil on copper 7 5/8 x 5 7/8 in. (19.3 x 14.9 cm.)

Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, Nederlandse stillevens uit de zeventiende eeuw, 21 July-21 September 1962, no. 28. Laren, Singer Museum, Modernen van Toen 1570-1630, 15 June-1 September 1963, no. 24. Amsterdam, Waterman Gallery, Masters of Middelburg: Exhibition in the honour of Laurens J. Bol, March 1984, no. 1.

M.L. Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVII siècle, Paris and Brussels, 1955, p. 198. L.J. Bol, The Bosschaert Dynasty: Paintings of flowers and fruit, Leigh-on-Sea, 1960, p. 64, no. 29. M.L. Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVII siècle, Paris and Brussels, 1965, p. 354.

Estella Boas-Kogel (1876-1944), Baarn, on loan to Centraal Museum, Utrecht. H. Oelze, Amsterdam, from whom acquired by the following with Gallery P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1959. S. van Praag, Blaricum, 1963. with Gallery P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1974, from whom acquired by the father of the following Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 26 January 2011, lot 20 ($1,426,500 to the present owner).