Lot 44: BALTHASAR VAN DER AST

MIDDELBURG 1593/94 - 1657 DELFT
A STILL LIFE OF TULIPS, ROSES, IRISES, LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY, AFRICAN MARIGOLDS AND OTHER FLOWERS IN A GOLD-MOUNTED VASE, WITH A LIZARD, A CATERPILLAR AND SEA SHELLS
Signed, lower left: .B. vander. Ast..
oil on panel
17 1/8 x 12 ¾ in; 43.5 x 32.5 cm

London, Eugene Slatter Gallery, Dutch and Flemish Masters, 1948, cat. no. 21;
London, Royal Academy, Dutch Pictures, 1450-1750, Winter Exhibition 1952-53, cat. no. 134;
Haarlem, Teylers Museum, Bloemenwereld, 1953, cat. no. 3;
Laren, Singer Museum, Kunstschatten, 1959, cat. no. 22;
Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Bloem en tuin in de Vlaamse kunst, 1960, cat. no. 8, reproduced;
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, A world of flowers, 1963, cat. p.116, reproduced;
Singer Museum, Laren, Modernen van toen, cat. no. 6;
Amsterdam, Waterman Gallery, Masters of Middelburg, 1984, cat. no. 14, reproduced.

L.J. Bol, The Bosschaert Dynasty, Leigh-on-Sea 1960 (reprint 1980), p. 71, cat. no. 15;
S. Segal, Masters of Middelburg, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam 1985, pp.52 and 61, cat. no. 21;
M. Jager, Voorkeuren. Een particuliere collectie, Utrecht 1985, pp.8-9, reproduced.

Brigadier Christopher Huxley, London;
Sale London, Christie's, 12 December 1947, lot 63, sold for £1,050 to Slatter;
With Eugene Slatter, London, 1948;
Collection of Dr. Hans Wetzlar, Amsterdam, by 1952;
Thence by inheritance to his daughter, Marga ten Haaf-Wetzlar;
Her sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 July 2008, lot 42.