Lot 22: BALTHASAR VAN DER AST

BALTHASAR VAN DER AST MIDDELBURG 1593/94 - 1657 DELFT STILL LIFE OF TULIPS, IRISES, ROSES, FORGET-ME-NOTS, CHRYSANTHEMUMS AND HYPERICUM IN A ROEMER, WITH CHERRIES, A PLUM, A TULIP AND A CATERPILLAR ON A STONE LEDGE oil on panel, a fragment 18 x 14 1/2 inches 19 1/2 by 14 1/8 in.; 49.5 by 35.8 cm.

London, Leonard Koetser, Autumn Exhibition, 1961, no. 26.

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 17 May 1961, lot 73;
With Leonard Koetser, London;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 25 April 2001, lot 11.

We are grateful to Daniëlle H.A.C. Lokin for confirming the attribution to van der Ast, based on photographs. She will include this painting in her forthcoming catalogue raisonné on the artist's works.