Lot 25: AMBROSIUS BOSSCHAERT THE ELDER

THE PROPERTY OF A FAMILY
ANTWERP 1573 - 1621 THE HAGUE
A STILL LIFE OF FLOWERS IN A GLASS BEAKER SET IN A MARBLE NICHE
signed in monogram lower right
oil on copper
14 by 9 1/4 in.; 35.3 by 23.3 cm.

Hermitage catalogue of 1773, no. 1987;
Idem, 1797, no. 930;
Ermitage Impérial. Catalogue de la Galerie des Tableaux, Saint Petersburg 1863, p. 285, no. 1352, as by Abraham Breughel;
Idem, 2nd ed., 1870, vol. II, p. 326, no. 1352, as by Abraham Breugel (sic), with a transcription of the monogram;
A. Semof, Ermitage Impérial. Catalogue de la Galerie des Tableaux, Saint Petersburg 1895, p. 27, no. 1352, as by Ambrosius Bosschaert;
Idem, subsequent ed.,1901, pp. 30-31, no. 1352;
L.J. Bol, The Bosschaert Dynasty, Leigh on Sea 1960, p. 65, no. 35.

Perhaps Jean de Carpentier, according to an inscription on the reverse in a 17υth century hand;
In the Russian Imperial collections, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, by 1773 (in the catalogue of that year, no. 1987, as by Abraham Breugel, and likewise in the 1797 catalogue, no. 930); with subsequent inventory numbers 1352 (by 1863 until after 1901, stencilled on the reverse of the copper) & 1948 (painted, on the reverse of the copper), until 14th November 1932, when deaccessioned;
Acquired by the grandfather of the present owners, probably in Berlin where he lived, in 1932;
Thence by descent in Berlin until now.